Proverbs 1:18-30

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,

²²How long, little men in wit, love young childhood, and fools shall covet those things, that be harmful to themselves, and unprudent men shall hate knowing?

²³Be ye converted at my reproving; lo, I shall bring forth to you my spirit, and I shall show my words.

²⁴For I called, and ye forsook; I held forth mine hand, and none there was that beheld.

²⁵Ye have despised all my counsel; and charged not my blamings.

²⁶And I shall laugh in your perishing; and I shall scorn you, when that, that ye dread, cometh to you.

²⁷When sudden wretchedness falleth in, and perishing befalleth as tempest; when tribulation and anguish cometh on you.

²⁸Then they shall call me, and I shall not hear; they shall rise early, and they shall not find me.

²⁹For they hated teaching, and they took not the dread of the Lord,

³⁰neither they assented to my counsel, and they depraved all mine amending.