If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

'Come, eat of my bread, And drink of the wine I have mingled.

Pride hath come, and shame cometh, And with the lowly is wisdom.

With the coming of the wicked come also hath contempt, And with shame -- reproach.

And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man!

For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

As a bird by wandering, as a swallow by flying, So reviling without cause doth not come.