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

Turn back at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you; I will make my words known to you.

I call out to you, O men, and my voice is to the sons of men.

Understand wisdom, you simple ones; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

Whoever is simple, turn in here; and to the one lacking heart, she says to him:

Forsake simplicity, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Extend your ear, and come to Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Then Paul and Barnabas grew bold and said, It was necessary that the Word of God should be spoken to you first; but since you thrust it away, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

We then, as workers together with Him, also beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

A scorner seeks wisdom, and does not find it; but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands have refused to work.

He covets greedily all day long, but the righteous gives and spares not.

Oh, that this heart of theirs would be fully yielded, to fear Me and to keep all My commandments at all times, that it might be well with them and with their children forever!

But My people would not heed My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

Oh, that My people had listened to Me, that Israel had walked in My ways!

Harlotry and wine and new wine snatch away the heart.

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

saying, Go to this people and say: Hearing you will hear, and shall not understand; and seeing you will see, and not perceive;

for the heart of this people has grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, that they should not see with their eyes nor hear with their ears, that they should not understand with their hearts and turn, and I should heal them.