My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

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.^*

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

¶ Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:^*

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