ERV(i)
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;
14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
17 For in vain is the net spread, in the eyes of any bird:
18 And these lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
20 Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; she uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and scorners delight them in scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:
29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: