22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

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22 “How long will you who are simple(A) love your simple ways?
    How long will mockers delight in mockery
    and fools hate(B) knowledge?
23 Repent at my rebuke!
    Then I will pour out my thoughts to you,
    I will make known to you my teachings.
24 But since you refuse(C) to listen when I call(D)
    and no one pays attention(E) when I stretch out my hand,
25 since you disregard all my advice
    and do not accept my rebuke,
26 I in turn will laugh(F) when disaster(G) strikes you;
    I will mock(H) when calamity overtakes you(I)
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
    when disaster(J) sweeps over you like a whirlwind,
    when distress and trouble overwhelm you.

28 “Then they will call to me but I will not answer;(K)
    they will look for me but will not find me,(L)
29 since they hated knowledge
    and did not choose to fear the Lord.(M)
30 Since they would not accept my advice
    and spurned my rebuke,(N)
31 they will eat the fruit of their ways
    and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.(O)
32 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them,
    and the complacency of fools will destroy them;(P)
33 but whoever listens to me will live in safety(Q)
    and be at ease, without fear of harm.”(R)

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10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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10 and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing.(A) They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.(B) 11 For this reason God sends them(C) a powerful delusion(D) so that they will believe the lie(E) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(F)

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Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

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Above all, you must understand that in the last days(A) scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.(B)

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