Proverbs 1:11-29

JuliaSmith(i) 11 If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously; 12 We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit: 13 We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil: 14 Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all: 15 My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths: 16 For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood: 17 For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing. 18 And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls. 19 So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it. 20 Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice: 21 She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words: 22 How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge? 23 Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you. 24 Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending; 25 And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs: 26 Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror; 27 In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress. 28 Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me; 29 For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah: