³² He who refuses correction despises his own soul, But he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

²⁴ Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

²⁵ But you have ignored all my counsel, And wanted none of my reproof;

²⁶ I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

²⁷ When calamity overtakes you like a storm, When your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come on you.

²⁸ Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

³⁰ They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

³¹ Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own schemes.

³² For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

³³ But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, And will be at ease, without fear of harm."

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

²⁴ "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.

²⁵ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it didn't fall, for it was founded on the rock.

²⁶ Everyone who hears these words of mine, and doesn't do them will be like a foolish man, who built his house on the sand.

²⁷ The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat on that house; and it fell--and great was its fall."

⁷ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

¹³ In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have cleansed you and you weren't cleansed, you shall not be cleansed from your filthiness any more, until I have caused my wrath toward you to rest.

¹⁴ I, Yahweh, have spoken it: it shall happen, and I will do it: I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to your ways, and according to your doings, shall they judge you, says the Lord Yahweh.

³ O Yahweh, don't your eyes look on truth? you have stricken them, but they were not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

⁵ Why should you be beaten more, That you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faint.

¹ He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck Will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.

¹⁵ The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

¹⁶ Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he has no understanding?

²¹ Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, But a man of understanding keeps his way straight.

¹⁴ The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, But the mouths of fools feed on folly.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

³⁴ Blessed is the man who hears me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at my door posts.

³⁵ For whoever finds me, finds life, And will obtain favor from Yahweh.

³⁶ But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death."

¹¹ You will groan at your latter end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,

¹² And say, "How I have hated instruction, And my heart despised reproof;

¹³ Neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, Nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁷ Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?

²⁰ and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

¹⁵ looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby the many be defiled;