Proverbs:1:20-33

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* Wisdom cries without ; she utters her voice in the streets : * She cries in the chief place of concourse , in the openings of the gates : in the city she utters her words , saying , * How long , you simple ones , will you love simplicity ? and the scorners delight in their scorning , and fools hate knowledge ? * Turn you at my reproof : behold , I will pour out my spirit to you , I will make known my words to you . * Because I have called , and you refused ; I have stretched out my hand , and no man regarded ; * But you have set at nothing all my counsel , and would none of my reproof : * I also will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when your fear comes ; * When your fear comes as desolation , and your destruction comes as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish comes on you . * Then shall they call on me , but I will not answer ; they shall seek me early , but they shall not find me : * For that they hated knowledge , and did not choose the fear of the LORD : * 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 turning away of the simple shall slay them , and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them . * But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely , and shall be quiet from fear of evil .

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