CLV(i)
20 Wisdom is jubilating in the street; In the squares she is giving forth her voice.
21 At the top of the walls she is calling; At the portals of the gates in the city she is speaking her words:
22 How long, O simple ones, shall you love simplicity, And mockers covet their mocking, And the stupid hate knowledge?
23 May you turn back at my correction; Behold, let me utter what is in my spirit to you; Let me make known my words to you."
24 Because I called, and you refused, I stretched out my hand, and no one attended,
25 And you renounced all my counsel, And you would not heed my reproof,
26 Indeed, I myself shall ridicule you in your calamity; I shall deride when alarm comes upon you,
27 When alarm comes upon you like a tumult, And calamity, it arrives upon you like a sweeping whirlwind, When distress and constraint come upon you."
28 Then they shall call me, yet I shall not answer; They shall seek me early, yet shall not find me."
29 Because they hated knowledge And would not choose the fear of Yahweh,
30 They would not heed my counsel, They spurned all my correction,
31 Thus they shall eat of the fruit of their way, And they shall be surfeited with the results of their counsels."
32 For the instability of the simple, it shall kill them, And the carelessness of the stupid, it shall destroy them."
33 Yet whoever is hearkening to me shall tabernacle in trust, And he will be tranquil, away from alarm of peril."