How long will you stay in bed, you slacker? When will you get up from your sleep?

So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and told him, "This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may worship Me.

Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?

"How long [must I endure] this evil community that keeps complaining about Me? I have heard the Israelites' complaints that they make against Me.

Jesus replied, "You unbelieving and rebellious generation! How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him here to Me."

I saw among the inexperienced, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking sense.

"Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!" To the one who lacks sense, she says,

Leave inexperience behind, and you will live; pursue the way of understanding.

"Whoever is inexperienced, enter here!" To the one who lacks sense, she says,

But he doesn't know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Pay attention, you stupid people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy and not sacrifice. For I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners."

All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! The city who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

saying, "If you knew this day what [would bring] peace-- but now it is hidden from your eyes.

Both the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" Anyone who hears should say, "Come!" And the one who is thirsty should come. Whoever desires should take the living water as a gift.

He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble.

A mocker seeks wisdom and doesn't find it, but knowledge [comes] easily to the perceptive.

A mocker doesn't love one who corrects him; he will not consult the wise.

Judgments are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the backs of fools.

When a mocker is punished, the inexperienced become wiser; when one teaches a wise man, he acquires knowledge.

What man is like Job? He drinks derision like water.

How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path of sinners, or join a group of mockers!

First, be aware of this: scoffers will come in the last days to scoff, following their own lusts,

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Because they hated knowledge, didn't choose to fear the LORD,

and you will say, "How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.