Proverbs

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when the thing comes that shall cause you terror and panic– ²⁷When your panic comes as a storm and desolation and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ²⁸Then will they call upon me [Wisdom] but I will not answer; they will seek me early and diligently but they will not find me. [Job 27:9; 35:12, 13; Isa. 1:15, 16; Jer. 11:11; Mic. 3:4; James 4:3.] ²⁹Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord, [Prov. 8:13.] ³⁰Would accept none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof, ³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices. ³²For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]