¹⁰ For forty years I loathed that generation
    and said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray,
    and they do not regard my ways.”^(A)

²² “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?^(A)
23 Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
    I will make my words known to you.^(B)
24 Because I have called and you refused,
    have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,^(C)
25 and because you have ignored all my counsel
    and would have none of my reproof,^(D)
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
    I will mock when panic strikes you,^(E)
27 when panic strikes you like a storm
    and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
    when distress and anguish come upon you.
²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;
    they will seek me diligently but will not find me.^(F)
29 Because they hated knowledge
    and did not choose the fear of the Lord,

⁹ where your ancestors put me to the test,^[a]
though they had seen my works ¹⁰     for forty years.
Therefore I was angry with that generation,
and I said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts,
    and they have not known my ways.’