Proverbs 1:10-27

¹⁰My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.

¹¹If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:

¹²We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:

¹³We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:

¹⁴Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:

¹⁵My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.

¹⁶For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.

¹⁷Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:

¹⁸So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.

¹⁹Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.

²⁰Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.

²¹She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,

²²O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?

²³(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)

²⁴Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.

²⁵But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.

²⁶I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.

²⁷Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,