Proverbs 1:11-27

¹¹If they should exhort you, 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 you cast in your 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 your foot from their paths:

¹⁶For their feet run to do evil, and are swift to shed blood.

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,

²²So long as the simple cleave to justice, they shall not be ashamed: but the foolish being lovers of haughtiness, having become ungodly have hated knowledge, and are become subject to reproofs.

²³Behold, I will bring forth to you the utterance of my breath, and I will instruct you in my speech.

²⁴Since I called, and you° did not listen; and I spoke at length, and you° gave no heed;

²⁵but you° set at nothing my counsels, and disregarded my reproofs;

²⁶therefore I also will laugh at your destruction; and I will rejoice against you when ruin comes upon you:

²⁷yes when dismay suddenly comes upon you, and your overthrow shall arrive like a tempest; and when tribulation and distress shall come upon you, or when ruin shall come upon you.