9. for they will be a garland of grace on your headand a gold chain around your neck.
10. My son, if sinners entice you, don’t be persuaded.
11. If they say — “Come with us!Let’s set an ambush and kill someone. Let’s attack some innocent person just for fun!
12. Let’s swallow them alive, like Sheol,still healthy as they go down to the Pit.
13. We’ll find all kinds of valuable propertyand fill our houses with plunder.
14. Throw in your lot with us,and we’ll all share our money” —
15. my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,
16. because their feet run toward troubleand they hurry to commit murder.
17. It is foolish to spread a netwhere any bird can see it,
18. but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.
19. Such are the paths of all who make profit dishonestly; it takes the lives of those who receive it.
20. Wisdom calls out in the street;she raises her voice in the public squares.
21. She cries out above the commotion;she speaks at the entrance of the city gates: