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11 yf they entise the, & saye: come with vs, we will laye wayte for bloude, & lurcke preuely for the innocent without a cause:
12 we shall swalowe then vp lyke the hell, & deuoure them quycke and hole, as those that go downe into the pyt.
13 So shall we fynde all maner of costelye ryches, & fill our houses wt spoyles.
14 Cast in thy lot among vs: & let vs haue all one purse.
15 My sonne, walke not thou with them: refrayne thy fote from their waye.
16 For their fete runne to euell: & are hasty to shed bloud.
17 But in vayn is the net laied forth before the byrdes eyes:
18 yee they them selues laye wayte one for anothers bloud & one of them wold sleye another.
19 These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, the one wold rauysh anothers lyfe.
20 Wisdome cryeth wtout, & putteth forth her voyce in the stretes.
21 She calleth before the congregacyon in the open gates, & sheweth her wordes thorow the citye, saying:
22 O ye children, how longe wyll ye loue childesshnes? how longe wyll the scorners delyte in scorning, & the vnwyse be enemyes vnto knowledge?
23 O turne you vnto my correccion: lo, I wyll expresse my mynde vnto you, & make you vnderstande my wordes.
24 I haue called, & ye refused it: I haue stretched out my hande: & no man regarded it:
25 but all my councels haue ye despised: & set my correccion at naught.
26 Therfore shall I also laugh in youre destruccion, & mocke you, when that thinge that ye feare commeth vpon you:
27 euen when the thynge that ye be afrayed of, falleth in sodenly lyke a storme, & your misery lyke a tempest: yee, when trouble & heuines commeth vpon you.
28 Then shal they call vpon me, but I wyll not heare: they shall seke me early, but they shall not fynde me.
29 And that because they hated knowledge, & receaued not the feare of the Lorde: