1:23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
1:24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
1:25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
1:26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
1:27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
1:28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:
1:29. Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,
1:30. Nor consented to my counsel, but despised all my reproof.
1:31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, and shall be filled with their own devices.
1:32. The turning away of little ones shall kill them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.