10. My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. [Ps. 1:1; Eph. 5:11.]
11. If they say, Come with us; let us lie in wait [to shed] blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause [and show that his piety is in vain];
12. Let us swallow them up alive as does Sheol (the place of the dead), and whole, as those who go down into the pit [of the dead];
13. We shall find and take all kinds of precious goods [when our victims are put out of the way], we shall fill our houses with plunder;
14. Throw in your lot with us [they insist] and be a sworn brother and comrade; let us all have one purse in common–
15. My son, do not walk in the way with them; restrain your foot from their path;
16. For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
17. For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird!
18. But [when these men set a trap for others] they are lying in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
19. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy of gain; such [greed for plunder] takes away the lives of its possessors. [Prov. 15:27; I Tim. 6:10.]
20. Wisdom cries aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the markets;
21. She cries at the head of the noisy intersections [in the chief gathering places]; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
22. How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?