Proverbs 1:10-21

¹⁰My son, let not ungodly men lead thee astray, Neither consent thou to them.

¹¹If they should exhort thee, saying, Come with us, partake in blood, And let us unjustly hide the just man in the earth:

¹²And let us swallow him alive, as Hades would, And remove the memorial of him from the earth:

¹³Let us seize on his valuable property, And let us fill our houses with spoils:

¹⁴But do thou cast in thy lot with us, And let us all provide a common purse, And let us have one pouch:

¹⁵Go not in the way with them, But turn aside thy foot from their paths:

¹⁷For nets are not without cause spread for birds.

¹⁸For they that are concerned in murder store up evils for themselves; And the overthrow of transgressors is evil.

¹⁹These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; For by ungodliness they destroy their own life.

²⁰Wisdom sings aloud in passages, And in the broad places speaks boldly.

²¹And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, And sits by the gates of princes; And at the gates of the city boldly says,