<t /><p class="poetry">Wisdom<n id="1" /> calls out<n id="2" /> in the street,p> <p class="poetry">she shouts loudly<n id="3" /> in the plazas;<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Does not wisdom call out?p> <p class="poetry">Does not understanding raise her voice?p>

<p class="poetry">Egypt will run away, hissing like a snake,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">as the enemy comes marching up in force.p> <p class="poetry">They will come against her with axesp> <p class="poetry">as if they were woodsmen chopping down trees.p>

<p class="poetry">The people of the earth will quake when they hear of their downfall.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Their cries of anguish will be heard all the way to the Gulf of Aqaba.<n id="2" />p>