Proverbs 1:14-31

¹⁴Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'

¹⁵My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

¹⁶For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

¹⁷Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

¹⁸And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

¹⁹So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

²⁰Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,

²¹At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

²²'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?

²³Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.

²⁴Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,

²⁵And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.

²⁶I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

²⁷When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

²⁸Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.

²⁹Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

³⁰They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

³¹And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.