²⁰ So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

¹² So that you may not be slow in heart, but may take as your example those to whom God has given their heritage, because of their faith and their long waiting.

⁶³ I keep company with all your worshippers, and those who have your orders in their memory.

¹¹⁵ Go far from me, you evil-doers; so that I may keep the teachings of my God.

²⁰ Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.

⁷ Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

⁸ If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

¹⁶ This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

¹¹ My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.