Wisdom & Truth Verses

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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

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

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

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. {in the...: Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing}

And they lay wait for their {own} blood; they lurk privily for their {own} lives.

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, {saying},

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as {for} hid treasures;