⁸ My son, listen to your father’s instruction,
    and do not let go of your mother’s teaching.

²⁰ Wisdom cries out in the street;
    she raises her voice in the public squares.
²¹ She calls out at the busiest part^[a] of the noisy streets,^[b]
    and at the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words:
²² “You naïve ones, how long will you love naiveté?
    And how long will scoffers delight in scoffing
        or fools hate knowledge?”
²³ Return to my correction!
    Look, I will pour out my spirit on you,
        and I will make my words known to you.

²⁴ “Because I called out to you and you refused to respond—^[c]
    I appealed,^[d] but no one paid attention—
²⁵ because^[e] you neglected all my advice
    and did not want my correction,
²⁶ I will laugh at your calamity.
    I will mock when what you fear^[f] comes,
²⁷ when what you dread comes like a storm,
    and your calamity comes on like a whirlwind,
        when distress and anguish come upon you.

4 Listen, children,^[a] to your father’s instruction,
and pay attention in order to gain understanding.

⁷ Whoever corrects a mocker invites only insult,^[a]
    and whoever rebukes the wicked will himself become stained.
⁸ Don’t rebuke a mocker or he will hate you.
    Rebuke a wise person, and he will love you.

¹⁷ Whoever heeds correction is on the pathway to life,
    but someone who ignores exhortation goes astray.

12 The person who loves correction loves knowledge,
but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid.

13 A wise son heeds^[a] a father’s correction,
but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.