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- Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
- at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
- "How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
- If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
- But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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- since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
- I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-
- when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
- "Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
- Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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- since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
- they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
- For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
- but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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