26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when the thing comes that shall cause you terror and panic–
27. When your panic comes as a storm and desolation and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
28. Then 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.]
29. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the reverent and worshipful fear of the Lord, [Prov. 8:13.]
30. Would accept none of my counsel, and despised all my reproof,
31. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be satiated with their own devices.
32. For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, and the careless ease of [self-confident] fools shall destroy them. [Isa. 32:6.]
33. But whoso hearkens to me [Wisdom] shall dwell securely and in confident trust and shall be quiet, without fear or dread of evil.