³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

¹¹ But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

¹⁷³ Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

⁹ Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

¹⁸ `And they began with one consent all to excuse themselves: The first said to him, A field I bought, and I have need to go forth and see it; I beg of thee, have me excused.

¹⁹ `And another said, Five yoke of oxen I bought, and I go on to prove them; I beg of thee, have me excused:

²⁰ and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart `are' they.