19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20. Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21. She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23. Turn you 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 man regarded;
25. But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26. I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27. When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.
28. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29. For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30. They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof: