Proverbs 1:12-21

¹²swallow we him, as hell swallow-eth a man living; and all-whole, as going down into a pit;

¹³we shall find all precious chattel or substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils;

¹⁴put thou lot with us, one purse be there of us all;

¹⁵my son, go thou not with them; forbid thy foot from the paths of them.

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.

²⁰Wisdom preacheth withoutforth; in streets it giveth his voice.

²¹It crieth oft in the head of companies; in the leaves of the gates of the city it bringeth forth his words, and saith,