²² “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?
    For the scorners delight in their scorning,
    and fools hate knowledge.
²³ Turn at my reproof;
    surely I will pour out my spirit on you;
    I will make my words known to you.
²⁴ Because I have called and you refused,
    I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded,
²⁵ because you neglected all my counsel,
    and would have none of my reproof,
²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when your fear comes,
²⁷ when your fear comes as desolation
    and your destruction comes as a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.

²⁸ “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me early, but they will not find me.
²⁹ Because they hated knowledge
    and did not choose the fear of the Lord,
³⁰ they would have none of my counsel
    and despised all my reproof.
³¹ Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way,
    and be filled with their own devices.
³² For the turning away of the simple will slay them,
    and the prosperity of fools will destroy them.
³³ But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,
    and will be secure from fear of evil.”