My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.

Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.