16. For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18. And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.
20. Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21. She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,
22. How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?
23. Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24. Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;
25. for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:
26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;
27. when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.
28. Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord: