Wisdom continues: 'Since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my reproof.' The repeated refusal to hear—ignoring counsel and refusing correction—reveals a settled disposition against wisdom. The person being addressed has developed a pattern of resistance that goes beyond youthful inexperience. Reproof (tokechah) is here understood as an expression of wisdom's care; to refuse it is to refuse the path to life. This verse emphasizes the active, deliberate character of the rejection: the person 'would not accept,' suggesting willful hardening. The accumulation of these phrases—called and refused, stretched out hand and no one heeded, advice ignored, reproof rejected—builds a picture of someone who has definitively closed the door on wisdom's invitation. The historical dimension suggests judgment is not arbitrary but the culmination of a long process of rejection.

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