Proverbs 1:20-23

Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square; in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech: “How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? If 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.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Proverbs 1

2 songs meet this passage

  • “Hear my words that I might teach you”

    The Sound of Silence · Simon & Garfunkel

    resonates with Proverbs 1:20-23

    Wisdom crying out unheeded in the street closely matches the speaker's failed attempt to reach a silent, unresponsive crowd.

  • Houdini · Eminem

    strains against Proverbs 1:22

    Mocking caution and sensitivity as weakness runs opposite to wisdom's call to value restraint and humility.

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