²⁰ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

²¹ She crieth in the chief places of concourse, in the openings of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

²² “How long, ye simple ones, will ye love to be simple, and the scorners delight in their 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 heeded,

²⁵ but ye have set at nought all my counsel and would have none of my reproof,

²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh,

²⁷ when your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

²⁸ Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me,

²⁹ because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

³⁰ They would have none of my counsel, and they despised all my reproof:

³¹ therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own ways, and be filled with their own devices.

³² For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them;

³³ but whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall have quiet from fear of evil.”

5 My son, attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding,

² that thou mayest have regard for discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

²⁰ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother.

²¹ Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

²² When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life

7 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

² Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³¹ The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the froward tongue shall be cut out.

¹⁴ Where no counsel is, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

⁵ The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

²⁶ The righteous is more excellent than his neighbor, but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

¹³ Whoso despiseth the Word shall be destroyed, but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

⁷ The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.