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And you treated all my counsel as nothing
And would not accept my reprimand,
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I also will laugh at your disaster;
I will mock when your dread and panic come,
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When your dread and panic come like a storm,
And your disaster comes like a whirlwind,
When anxiety and distress come upon you [as retribution].
²⁸ 
“Then they will call upon me (Wisdom), but I will not answer;
They will seek me eagerly but they will not find me,^(A)
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Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord [that is, obeying Him with reverence and awe-filled respect],^(B)
30 
They would not accept my counsel,
And they spurned all my rebuke.
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“Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own [wicked] way
And be satiated with [the penalty of] their own devices.
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“For the turning away of the ^[a]naive will kill them,
And the careless ease of [self-righteous] fools will destroy them.^(C)

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Poverty and shame will come to him who refuses instruction and discipline,
But he who accepts and learns from reproof or censure is honored.