Proverbs 1:12-21

Listen to the Wisdom of proverbs.

Pro 1:12  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Pro 1:13  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Pro 1:14  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Pro 1:15  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Pro 1:16  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Pro 1:17  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Pro 1:18  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Pro 1:19  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

The Call of Wisdom

Pro 1:20  Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Pro 1:21  She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,