Proverbs 1:20-33 - The Call Of Lady Wisdom
20 Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice: 21 She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words: 22 How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge? 23 Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. 24 Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending; 25 And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs: 26 Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; 27 In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress. 28 Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; 29 For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: 30 They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs. 31 And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them. 33 And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.