Bishops(i)
11 If they say, come with vs, let vs lay wayte for blood, and lurke priuily for the innocent without a cause
12 Let vs swallowe them vp lyke the graue quicke and whole, as those that go downe into the pit
13 So shall we finde all maner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoyles
14 Cast in thy lot among vs, and let vs all haue one purse
15 My sonne, walke not thou with them, refrayne thy foote from their wayes
16 For their feete runne to euyll, and are hasty to shed blood
17 But [as] in vayne, the nette is layde foorth before the birdes eyes
18 So these lay wayte for the blood of them, and lye priuily for their liues
19 Such [are] the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof
20 Wisdome cryeth without, and putteth foorth her voyce in the streetes
21 She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and sheweth her wordes through the citie, saying
22 O ye children, howe long wyll ye loue childishnesse? howe long wyll the scorners delite in scornyng, and the vnwise hate knowledge
23 O turne you at my correction: lo I wyll expresse my mynde vnto you, and make you vnderstande my wordes
24 Because I haue called, and ye refused, I haue stretched out my hande, and no man regarded
25 But all my counsels haue ye dispised, and set my correction at naught
26 Therfore wyll I also laugh at your destruction, and mocke you, when the thyng that ye feare commeth vpon you
27 Euen when the thyng that ye be afraide of falleth in sodenly like a storme, and your miserie lyke a tempest, yea when trouble and heauinesse commeth vpon you
28 Then shall they call vpon me, but I wyll not aunswere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me
29 And that because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lorde