How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity; and those who scorn desire their scorning; and fools hate knowledge?

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

Yet they say to the Mighty God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we entreat Him?

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

seeing as how you hate correction, and cast off My Words behind you?

When its branches are dried up, they shall be broken off; the women come and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding. Therefore He who made them will not have mercy on them, and He who formed them will show them no favor.

that this is a rebellious people, lying children; children who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

turn away from the path, thrust aside from the way, desist from the Holy One of Israel from before us.

For everyone practicing evil hates the Light and does not come to the Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always oppose the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.

But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the temporary pleasures of sin,