MLV(i)
22 How long, you* simple ones, will you* love simplicity? And scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you*. I will make my words known to you*.
24 Because I have called and you* have refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man has regarded, 25 but you* have made all my counsel void and want none of my reproof, 26 I also will laugh at your* calamity. I will mock when your* fear comes, 27 when your* fear comes as a storm and your* calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you*.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.
24 Because I have called and you* have refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man has regarded, 25 but you* have made all my counsel void and want none of my reproof, 26 I also will laugh at your* calamity. I will mock when your* fear comes, 27 when your* fear comes as a storm and your* calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you*.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.