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Proverbs - ch 1 v 21 - 33
- She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
- How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
- Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
- Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
- But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
- I also will laugh in `the day of' your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
- Then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
- For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah:
- They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
- Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
- For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
- But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.
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