BSB(i)
20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
21 in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
23 If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
24 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
25 because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,