Proverbs 1:11-29 - Heartlight

¹¹If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood,

let us ambush the innocent without cause,

¹²let us swallow them alive like Sheol,

and whole like those descending into the Pit.

¹³We will find all manner of precious goods;

we will fill our houses with plunder.

¹⁴Throw in your lot with us;

let us all share one purse”—

¹⁵my son, do not walk the road with them

or set foot upon their path.

¹⁶For their feet run to evil,

and they are swift to shed blood.

¹⁷How futile it is to spread the net

where any bird can see it!

¹⁸But they lie in wait for their own blood;

they ambush their own lives.

¹⁹Such is the fate of all who are greedy,

whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

²⁰Wisdom calls out in the street,

she lifts her voice in the square;

²¹in the main concourse she cries aloud,

at the city gates she makes her speech:

²²“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways?

How long will scoffers delight in their scorn

and fools hate knowledge?

²³If you had repented at my rebuke,

then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you;

I would have made my words known to you.

²⁴Because you refused my call,

and no one took my outstretched hand,

²⁵because you neglected all my counsel,

and wanted none of my correction,

²⁶in turn I will mock your calamity;

I will sneer when terror strikes you,

²⁷when your dread comes like a storm,

and your destruction like a whirlwind,

when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

²⁸Then they will call on me, but I will not answer;

they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

²⁹For they hated knowledge

and chose not to fear the LORD.

— Proverbs 1:11-29

(BSB)

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