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

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

they did not want my advice, and they rejected all my correction.

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?

and "I did not listen to the voice of my teachers, and I did not incline my ear to my instructors!

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 was not hurt!
They beat me, but I did not feel it!
When will I wake up?
I will seek more wine.”

If you [claim ignorance and] say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He not consider it who weighs and examines the hearts and their motives?
And does He not know it who guards your life and keeps your soul?
And will He not repay [you and] every man according to his works?

Say not, 'As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

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

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