Proverbs 1:7-17

⁷The dread of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; fools despise wisdom and teaching.

⁸My son, hear thou the teaching of thy father, and forsake thou not the law of thy mother;

⁹that grace be added, either increased, to thine head, and a bie to thy neck.

¹⁰My son, if sinners flatter thee, assent thou not to them.

¹¹If they say, Come thou with us, set we ambush to shed blood, hide we snares of deceits against an innocent without cause;

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.