³²When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, ‘Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.’³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved.³⁴He said, ‘Where have you laid him?’ They said to him, ‘Lord, come and see.’³⁵Jesus began to weep.³⁶So the Jews said, ‘See how he loved him!’³⁷But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’

Jesus Raises Lazarus to Life

³⁸ Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.³⁹Jesus said, ‘Take away the stone.’ Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, ‘Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days.’⁴⁰Jesus said to her, ‘Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?’⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, ‘Father, I thank you for having heard me.⁴²I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.’⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’⁴⁴The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’

The Call of Wisdom

²⁰ Wisdom cries out in the street;   in the squares she raises her voice.²¹ At the busiest corner she cries out;   at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:²² ‘How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing   and fools hate knowledge?²³ Give heed to my reproof;I will pour out my thoughts to you;   I will make my words known to you.²⁴ Because I have called and you refused,   have stretched out my hand and no one heeded,²⁵ and because you have ignored all my counsel   and would have none of my reproof,²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity;   I will mock when panic strikes you,²⁷ when panic strikes you like a storm,   and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,   when distress and anguish come upon you.²⁸ Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer;   they will seek me diligently, but will not find me.²⁹ Because they hated knowledge   and did not choose the fear of the ^Lord,³⁰ would have none of my counsel,   and despised all my reproof,³¹ therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way   and be sated with their own devices.³² For waywardness kills the simple,   and the complacency of fools destroys them;³³ but those who listen to me will be secure   and will live at ease, without dread of disaster.’