20. Wisdom cries aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open square:
21. She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22. How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, 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 you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;