MLV(i)
11 If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole, as those who go down into the pit.
13 We will find all precious substance. We will fill our houses with spoil.
14 You will cast your lot among us. We will all have one bag.
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. Restrain your foot from their path. 16 Because their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood. 17 Because the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird, 18 and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places. 21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words:
22 How long, you* simple ones, will you* love simplicity? And scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you*. I will make my words known to you*.
24 Because I have called and you* have refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man has regarded, 25 but you* have made all my counsel void and want none of my reproof, 26 I also will laugh at your* calamity. I will mock when your* fear comes, 27 when your* fear comes as a storm and your* calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you*.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them. Restrain your foot from their path. 16 Because their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood. 17 Because the net is spread in vain in the sight of any bird, 18 and these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.
19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain. It takes away the life of the owners of it.
20 Wisdom cries aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the broad places. 21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, at the entrance of the gates, in the city. She utters her words:
22 How long, you* simple ones, will you* love simplicity? And scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn back at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you*. I will make my words known to you*.
24 Because I have called and you* have refused, I have stretched out my hand and no man has regarded, 25 but you* have made all my counsel void and want none of my reproof, 26 I also will laugh at your* calamity. I will mock when your* fear comes, 27 when your* fear comes as a storm and your* calamity comes on as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you*.
28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me, 29 because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of Jehovah.