20Wisdom calls out in the street,
she lifts her voice in the square;
21in the main concourse she cries aloud,
at the city gates she makes her speech:
22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways?
How long will scoffers delight in their scorn
and fools hate knowledge?
23If you had repented at my rebuke,
then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you;
I would have made my words known to you.
— Proverbs 1:20-23