Proverbs 1:18-32

18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

19Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

20Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;

21at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

22“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

23If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.

24However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

25because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,

26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

27when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

28Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

29Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,

30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.

31Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

32For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.