^{11 Ref} If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

^{12 Ref} Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

^{13 Ref} We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

¹⁴ Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

^{15 Ref} My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

^{16 Ref} For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

^{17 Ref} Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

^{18 Ref} And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

^{19 Ref} So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

^{20 Ref} Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

^{21 Ref} She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

^{22 Ref} How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

^{23 Ref} Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

^{24 Ref} Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

^{25 Ref} But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

^{26 Ref} I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

^{27 Ref} When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

^{28 Ref} Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

^{29 Ref} For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: