|
- Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;
- At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
- "How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?
- "Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.
- "Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
|
- Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
- She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
- How long, ye simple ones, will ye 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 unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
- Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
|
- And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof;
- I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,
- When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
- "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,
- Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD.
|
- But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
- I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
- When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Then shall they call upon 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 not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof.
- "So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices.
- "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
- "But he who listens to me shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil."
|
- 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 whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
|
|
|