Proverbs

¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. ¹⁷For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird! ¹⁸But [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. ¹⁹So 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.] ²⁰Wisdom cries aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the markets; ²¹She cries at the head of the noisy intersections [in the chief gathering places]; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: ²²How long, O simple ones [open to evil], will you love being simple? And the scoffers delight in scoffing and [self-confident] fools hate knowledge?