12. Let us swallow them up chayyim (alive) like She'ol; and whole, as those that go down into the bor (pit);
13. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill bateinu (our houses) with plunder;
14. Throw in thy goral (lot) among us; let all of us have kis echad (one pouch, purse).
15. Beni (my son), walk not thou in the derech with them; refrain thy regel from their path;
16. For their raglayim run to rah, and make haste for shefach dahm (shedding of blood).
17. Surely in vain the reshet (net) is spread in the eyes of kol ba'al kanaf (all the birds, i.e., lit. master of [the] wing);
18. And they lie in wait for their own dahm; they lurk secretly for their own nafshot.
19. So are the ways of every one that is greedy for betza (ill-gotten gain); which taketh away the nefesh of the be'alim (owners) thereof.
20. Chochmot crieth out in the street; she lifts up her voice in the rechovot (city squares);
21. She crieth out in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the she'arim (gates); in the Ir (city) she uttereth her words, saying,
22. Ad mosai, ye simple ones, will ye love being simpletons? And the scoffers delight in their mockery, and kesilim (fools) hate da'as?
23. Turn you at my tokhechah (reproof); hinei, I will pour out my ruach unto you, I will make known my devarim unto you.
24. Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my yad, and no man regarded;
25. But ye have disdained all my etza (counsel), and would have none of my tokhechah (reproof);