Proverbs 1:10-21

¹⁰My son, if sinners flatter thee, assent thou not to them.

¹¹If they say, Come thou with us, set we ambush to shed (out) blood, hide we snares of deceits against an innocent (person) without cause;

¹²swallow we him, as hell swalloweth a man living; and all-whole, as (those) going down into a pit; (we shall swallow him up, like Sheol swalloweth up the living; yea, all-whole, like those going down into the pit;)

¹³we shall find all precious chattel, (or possessions), we shall fill our houses with spoils;

¹⁴put thou lot with us, one purse be there of us all; (put thou thy lot with us, and let there be one purse for us all;)

¹⁵my son, go thou not with them; forbid thy foot from the paths of them (or do not let thy foot go onto their paths).

¹⁶For the feet of them run to evil; and they hasten to shed out blood.

¹⁷But a net is laid in vain before the eyes of birds, that have wings.

¹⁸Also they set ambush against their own blood; and make ready frauds, or guiles, against their (own) souls.

¹⁹So the paths of each avaricious man ravish, or take away, the souls of them that wield (them).

²⁰Wisdom preacheth withoutforth; in streets it giveth his voice. (Wisdom preacheth outside; yea, it raiseth up its voice in the streets.)

²¹It crieth oft in the head of companies; in the leaves of the gates of the city it bringeth forth his words, and saith, (It crieth often at the tops of the streets; and at the leaves of the gates of the city, it bringeth forth its words, and saith,)