20. Wisdom cries out in the street;she utters her voice in the markets.
21. She cries at the corner of the streets, in the openings of the gates;she speaks her words in the city, saying:
22. “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity?For the scorners delight in their scorning,and fools hate knowledge.
23. Turn at my reproof;surely I will pour out my spirit on you;I will make my words known to you.
24. Because I have called and you refused,I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded,
25. because you neglected all my counsel,and would have none of my reproof,
26. I also will laugh at your calamity;I will mock when your fear comes,
27. when your fear comes as desolationand your destruction comes as a whirlwind,when distress and anguish come upon you.
28. “Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;they will seek me early, but they will not find me.