Proverbs 1:11-29

If they say — “Come with us! Let’s set an ambush  and kill someone.  Let’s attack some innocent person  just for fun!  Let’s swallow them alive,  like Sheol, whole, like those who go down to the Pit.  We’ll find all kinds of valuable property and fill our houses with plunder.  Throw in your lot with us, and we’ll all share the loot”   — my son, don’t travel that road with them  or set foot on their path,  because their feet run toward evil and they hurry to shed blood.  It is useless to spread a net where any bird can see it, but they set an ambush to kill themselves;  they attack their own lives. Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly;  it takes the lives of those who receive it.  Wisdom calls out in the street; she makes her voice heard in the public squares.  She cries out above  the commotion; she speaks at the entrance of the city gates: “How long, inexperienced ones, will you love ignorance? How long will you mockers  enjoy mocking and you fools hate knowledge?  If you respond to my warning,  , then I will pour out my spirit on you  and teach you my words. Since I called out and you refused,  extended my hand and no one paid attention,  since you neglected all my counsel  and did not accept my correction, I, in turn, will laugh at your calamity.  I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you. Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.  Because they hated knowledge, didn’t choose to fear the  Lord,