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20 Wisdome cryeth wtout, & putteth forth her voyce in the stretes.
21 She calleth before the congregacyon in the open gates, & sheweth her wordes thorow the citye, saying:
22 O ye children, how longe wyll ye loue childesshnes? how longe wyll the scorners delyte in scorning, & the vnwyse be enemyes vnto knowledge?
23 O turne you vnto my correccion: lo, I wyll expresse my mynde vnto you, & make you vnderstande my wordes.
24 I haue called, & ye refused it: I haue stretched out my hande: & no man regarded it:
25 but all my councels haue ye despised: & set my correccion at naught.
26 Therfore shall I also laugh in youre destruccion, & mocke you, when that thinge that ye feare commeth vpon you:
27 euen when the thynge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly lyke a storme, & your misery lyke a tempest: yee, when trouble & heuines commeth vpon you.
28 Then shal they call vpon me, but I wyll not heare: they shall seke me early, but they shall not fynde me.
29 And that because they hated knowledge, & receaued not the feare of the Lorde:
30 but abhorred my councell, and despysed all my correccion.
31 Therfore shall they eate the frutes of theyr awne waye, & be filled with their awne inuencions:
32 for the turnynge awaye of the vnwyse shall sleye them, and the prosperytie of fooles shalbe their awne destruccyon.
33 But whoso harkneth vnto me, shall dwell safely, and be sure from any feare of euyll.