Proverbs 1:18-31
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18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
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22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.