²² “How long will you childish people love your childish ways?
    How long will you rude people enjoy making fun of God and others?
    How long will you foolish people hate knowledge?
²³ Pay attention to my warning!
    Then I will pour out my thoughts to you.
    I will make known to you my teachings.
²⁴ But you refuse to listen when I call out to you.
    No one pays attention when I reach out my hand.
²⁵ You turn away from all my advice.
    And you do not accept my warning.
²⁶ So I will laugh at you when you are in danger.
    I will make fun of you when hard times come.
²⁷ I will laugh when hard times hit you like a storm.
    I will laugh when danger comes your way like a windstorm.
    I will make fun of you when suffering and trouble come.

²⁸ “Then you will call to me. But I won’t answer.
    You will look for me. But you won’t find me.
²⁹ You hated knowledge.
    You didn’t choose to have respect for the Lord.
³⁰ You wouldn’t accept my advice.
    You turned your backs on my warnings.
³¹ So you will eat the fruit of the way you have lived.
    You will choke on the fruit of what you have planned.

³² “The wrong path that childish people take will kill them.
    Foolish people will be destroyed by being satisfied with the way they live.
³³ But those who listen to me will live in safety.
    They will be at ease and have no fear of being harmed.”

³¹ The mouths of those who do right produce wisdom.
    But tongues that speak twisted words will be made silent.

¹⁴ Without guidance a nation falls.
    But many good advisers can bring victory to a nation.

⁵ The plans of godly people are right.
    But the advice of sinners will lead you the wrong way.

²⁶ Godly people are careful about the friends they choose.
    But the way of sinners leads them down the wrong path.

¹³ Anyone who hates what they are taught will pay for it later.
    But a person who respects a command will be rewarded.