Proverbs 1:17-32

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,

²⁸Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,

²⁹Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.

³⁰They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.

³¹Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.

³²For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.