since you neglected all my counsel
and did not accept my correction,

Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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

Jehovah by wisdom did found the earth, He prepared the heavens by understanding.

Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm.

and then say, "Alas, why hated I nurture? Why did my heart despise correction?

I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

And he sinning against me did violence to his soul: all hating me loved death.

The unjust one did a work of falsehood: and the seed of justice the reward of truth.

Did I not write to thee three days ago in counsels and knowledge?

“They struck me, but I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”

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If you say, “But we didn’t know about this,”
won’t He who weighs hearts consider it?
Won’t He who protects your life know?
Won’t He repay a person according to his work?

Don’t say, “I’ll do to him what he did to me;
I’ll repay the man for what he has done.”

And then sayeth he, "I did it but in sport!"

Many daughters did virtue, and thou wentest up over all of them.