Proverbs 1:9-26

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.

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.