Authorized King James Version
"Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"
— Proverbs 1:24, Authorized King James Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.