This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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Wisdom calls aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the public squares; 21she calls out at the street corners, she delivers her message at the city gates.
22'You simple people, how much longer will you cling to your simple ways? How much longer will mockers revel in their mocking and fools go on hating knowledge?
23Pay attention to my warning. To you I will pour out my heart and tell you what I have to say.
24Since I have called and you have refused me, since I have beckoned and no one has taken notice, 25since you have ignored all my advice and rejected all my warnings, 26I, for my part, shall laugh at your distress, I shall jeer when terror befalls you,27when terror befalls you, like a storm, when your distress arrives, like a whirlwind, when ordeal and anguish bear down on you. 28Then they will call me, but I shall not answer, they will look eagerly for me and will not find me. 29They have hated knowledge, they have not chosen the fear of Yahweh, 30they have taken no notice of my advice, they have spurned all my warnings: 31so they will have to eat the fruits of their own ways of life, and choke themselves with their own scheming.32For the errors of the simple lead to their death, the complacency of fools works their own ruin; 33but whoever listens to me may live secure, will have quiet, fearing no mischance.'
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calls aloud = רָנַן = ranan Blue Letter Bible to overcome; to cry out; shout for joy, give a ringing cry; triumph, emit a tremulous sound
street = חוּץ = ḥûṣ Blue Letter Bible outside, outward, street; abroad, field, forth, highway; without
raises = נָתַן = nāṯan Blue Letter Bible to give, bestow, grant; consecrate, devote, dedicate; entrust, give over, deliver up; yield, produce; be (healed); pour; print; teach; to apply the heart to; to constitute, to make a thing like or similar to; cause to receive
voice = קוֹל = qôl Blue Letter Bible proclaim; command, entreat; claim; sing out; thundering; with a loud voice; voice, sound, noise; to call aloud; a voice or sound; bleating, crackling, lowing, neighing, stamping of feet; noise of inanimate objects; lightness, frivolity
squares = רְחֹב = rᵊḥōḇ Blue Letter Bible broad or open place or plaza; avenue or area; forum
calls = קָרָא = qārā' Blue Letter Bible to call, cry, utter a loud sound; proclaim; read aloud, read (to oneself); the idea of accosting a person met; address by name; call; name, give name to; call upon or to
corner = רֹאשׁ = rō'š Blue Letter Bible head, top, summit, upper part, chief, total, sum, height, front, beginning; top, tip; choicest, best; excellent; principal; highest, supreme
delivers = אָמַר = 'āmar Blue Letter Bible certify; declare; command, promise, to intend; to avow, to avouch; bear forth, bring to light; to speak, utter; say in one's heart, think
message = אֵמֶר = 'ēmer Blue Letter Bible utterance, speech, word, saying, promise; command, mandate; something said; appointed unto him; saying, speech, word
gates = שַׁעַר = šaʿar Blue Letter Bible gate (of entrance); marketplace, public meeting place; an opening, i.e. door or gate; heaven
simple = פְּתִי = pᵊṯî Blue Letter Bible simplicity, naivete; simple, foolish, open-minded; unskillful
cling = אָהַב = 'ahab Blue Letter Bible human love for another, includes family, and sexual; act of being a friend; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); desire, breathe after; delight; to be verdant, to germinate
simple ways = פְּתִי = pᵊṯî Blue Letter Bible simplicity, naivete; foolish; silly, easily entices, misled, persuaded
scoffers = לוּץ = lûṣ Blue Letter Bible to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly; boast; mock, deride; to be inflated, haughty; scoff; make mouths at; speak barbarously; act impudently; incapable of or rejecting discipline, correction, instruction
revel = חָמַד = ḥāmaḏ Blue Letter Bible desire, covet, take pleasure in, delight in; covet, delectable thing; lust; find precious; praise, eulogize, approve of; inordinate, ungoverned, selfish desire; idolatrous tendency
scoffing = לָצוֹן = lāṣôn Blue Letter Bible scorning; derision; mocking; bragging
fools = כְּסִיל = kᵊsîl Blue Letter Bible fool, stupid fellow, dullard, simpleton, arrogant one
hate = שָׂנֵא = śānē' Blue Letter Bible to hate, be hateful; enemy, foe; be odious
knowledge = דַּעַת = daʿaṯ Blue Letter Bible knowledge, perception, skill; discernment, understanding, wisdom; cunning; knowing; intelligence
pay attention = שׁוּב = shuwb Blue Letter Bible restore, refresh, repair; to return, turn back; to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish; to bring back to mind; to turn one’s self; feed; lodge; rejoice; convert; fetch home again; recover; relieve; rescue; renew; be brought back; give back
warning = תּוֹכֵחָה = towkechah Blue Letter Bible rebuke, correction, reproof, punishment, chastisement; argument, impeachment; refutation; chiding; arguing down, contradicting
pour out = נָבַע = nāḇaʿ Blue Letter Bible flow, pour out, pour, gush forth, spring, bubble up, ferment; emit; send forth, utter (abundantly); publish, tell; emphatic expression
heart = רוּחַ = rûaḥ Blue Letter Bible, mind, spirit; animation, vivacity, vigour; that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation; unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse; courage; desire; seat or organ of mental acts; the rational mind; intellect; seat of moral character; energy and executive and administrative power; energy of life; wind, breath; breath of air in motion; vital principle; endowing men with various gifts
tell you =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ Blue Letter Bible to perceive and see, find out and discern; to discriminate, distinguish; to know by experience; to recognize; be acquainted with; to know (a person carnally); to know how, be skillful in; to have knowledge, be wise; to be made known, be or become known, be revealed; to be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; to get to know, discover; to turn the mind to anything, to care about, to see about; recognize, admit, acknowledge, confess; discover
say = דָּבָר = dāḇār Blue Letter Bible speech, word, speaking, thing; saying, utterance, discourse; confer; advice, counsel; message, report, tidings; tidings; thought; promise; precept, edict; business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension)
called—see “calls” above
beckoned= נָטָה = natah Blue Letter Bible to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow; to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down; to hold out, extend; to turn, incline, influence; outstretched; wrest, cause to yield; spread oneself; seduce
taken notice = קָשַׁב = qashab. Blue Letter Bible to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen; give attention; to prick up the ears; regard
advice = עֵצָה = ʿēṣâ Blue Letter Bible advice; plan; prudence, wisdom; sagacity, consultation
warnings—see “warning” above
knowledge—see above
chosen = בָּחַר = bāḥar Blue Letter Bible to choose, elect, decide for; join; to prove, try, examine; approve, select; love, delight in
fear = יִרְאָה = yir'â Blue Letter Bible respect, reverence, piety; revered; holy fear; awesome or terrifying thing; fear, terror
notice = אָבָה = 'āḇâ Blue Letter Bible be willing; consent; yield to; accept; desire, long for; breathe after; be acquiescent; rest content; inclined; prone to; obey
advice—see above
warnings—see above
scheming = מוֹעֵצָה = môʿēṣâ Blue Letter Bible counsel, plan, principal, device
errors = מְשׁוּבָה = mᵊšûḇâ Blue Letter Bible turning away, turning back; apostasy; backsliding
simple—see above
complacency = שַׁלְוָה = šalvâ Blue Letter Bible quietness, ease, prosperity; security; abundance; careless security; unawareness; impiety
fools—see above
listens = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ Blue Letter Bible listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest, listen to; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; obey, be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer
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