I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.
25 You ignored my advice
and rejected the correction I offered.
26 So I will laugh when you are in trouble!
I will mock you when disaster overtakes you—
27 when calamity overtakes you like a storm,
when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone,
and anguish and distress overwhelm you.
28 “When they cry for help, I will not answer.
Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
29 For they hated knowledge
and chose not to fear the Lord.
30 They rejected my advice
and paid no attention when I corrected them.
31 Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way,
choking on their own schemes.
How many times do we give advice and warn and plead with people to change their path to no avail. How many times do we think we are making progress and yet they turn right back? We are preached at to never give up on someone, yet here the attitude seems so different. Recently I've come to the conclusion that some people aren't going to really change until they've hit rock bottom, and maybe that's what's being portrayed here. The person doesn't listen and Wisdom has done all it can until they hit the point where they have no choice but to listen. So Wisdom doesn't sit and worry and try to fix it and go through all the things we doting types put ourselves through. No, it shrugs and chuckles and says, "What did you expect?" Then Wisdom moves on, rejecting their pleas, knowing that they haven't yet come to that point where they are really going to change. Wisdom saves its energy and efforts for those who are ready now. Wisdom will stop wringing its hands realizing that this is a part of life, something that simply must happen in this persons life. That constantly coming to their rescue is enabling them and hurting everyone involved. Wisdom moves elsewhere, separating itself from the situation, until the time is right.
How many times do we give advice and warn and plead with people to change their path to no avail. How many times do we think we are making progress and yet they turn right back? We are preached at to never give up on someone, yet here the attitude seems so different. Recently I've come to the conclusion that some people aren't going to really change until they've hit rock bottom, and maybe that's what's being portrayed here. The person doesn't listen and Wisdom has done all it can until they hit the point where they have no choice but to listen. So Wisdom doesn't sit and worry and try to fix it and go through all the things we doting types put ourselves through. No, it shrugs and chuckles and says, "What did you expect?" Then Wisdom moves on, rejecting their pleas, knowing that they haven't yet come to that point where they are really going to change. Wisdom saves its energy and efforts for those who are ready now. Wisdom will stop wringing its hands realizing that this is a part of life, something that simply must happen in this persons life. That constantly coming to their rescue is enabling them and hurting everyone involved. Wisdom moves elsewhere, separating itself from the situation, until the time is right.
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