18. And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
19. So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
20. Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
21. she calleth in the chief place of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
22. How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
23. Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
24. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
25. and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26. I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
27. when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
28. --then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
29. Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
30. they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof: