12. Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.
13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoils.
14. Cast in thy lot with us, let us all have one purse.
15. My son, walk not thou with them, restrain thy foot from their paths.
16. For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
17. But a net is spread in vain before the eyes of them that have wings.
18. And they themselves lie in wait for their own blood, and practise deceits against their own souls.
19. So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.
20. Wisdom preacheth abroad, she uttereth her voice in the streets:
21. At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
22. O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?
23. Turn ye at my reproof: behold I will utter my spirit to you, and will shew you my words.
24. Because I called, and you refused: I stretched out my hand, and there was none that regarded.
25. You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.
26. I also will laugh in your destruction, and will mock when that shall come to you which you feared.
27. When sudden calamity shall fall on you, and destruction, as a tempest, shall be at hand: when tribulation and distress shall come upon you:
28. Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning and shall not find me: