20:001:010 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
20:001:011 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait
for blood, let us
lurk
privily for the innocent without cause:
20:001:012 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave;
and whole, as those
that
go down into the pit:
20:001:013 We shall find all precious substance, we
shall fill our houses
with
spoil:
20:001:014 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
20:001:015 My son, walk not thou in the way with them;
refrain thy foot
from
their path:
20:001:016 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
20:001:017 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
20:001:018 And they lay wait for their own blood;
they lurk privily for
their
own lives.
20:001:019 So are the ways of every one that is greedy
of gain; which
taketh
away the life of the owners thereof.
20:001:020 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
20:001:021 She crieth in the chief place of concourse,
in the openings of
the
gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
20:001:022 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love
simplicity? and the
scorners
delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
20:001:023 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I
will pour out my spirit unto
you,
I will make known my words unto you.
20:001:024 Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my
hand,
and no man regarded;
20:001:025 But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
and would none of my
reproof:
20:001:026 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will
mock when your fear
cometh;
20:001:027 When your fear cometh as desolation, and
your destruction
cometh
as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon
you.
20:001:028 Then shall they call upon me, but I will
not answer; they
shall
seek me early, but they shall not find me:
20:001:029 For that they hated knowledge, and did
not choose the fear of
the
lord:
20:001:030 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
20:001:031 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of
their own way, and be
filled
with their own devices.
20:001:032 For the turning away of the simple shall
slay them, and the
prosperity
of fools shall destroy them.
20:001:033 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell
safely, and shall be
quiet
from fear of evil.
20:002:001 My son, if thou wilt receive my words,
and hide my
commandments
with thee;


