If 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.

"Because I called out to you and you refused to respond I appealed, but no one paid attention

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him -- he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

The sluggard is wiser in his own estimation than seven people who respond with good sense.

A slave cannot be disciplined by words;
though he understands, he doesn’t respond.