21. She cries at the head of the noisy intersections [in the chief gathering places]; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22. How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?
23. If you will turn (repent) and give heed to my reproof, behold, I [Wisdom] will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you. [Isa. 11:2; Eph. 1:17-20.]
24. Because I have called and you have refused [to answer], have stretched out my hand and no man has heeded it, [Isa. 65:11, 12; 66:4; Jer. 7:13, 14; Zech. 7:11-13.]
25. And you treated as nothing all my counsel and would accept none of my reproof,
26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when the thing comes that shall cause you terror and panic–
27. When your panic comes as a storm and desolation and your calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.