20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets: 21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge? 23 Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded; 25 for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you; 27 when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you. 28 Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel. 32 For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.