⁸ Which goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, and walketh with wicked men.

¹ Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

³³ Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

²⁰ He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

¹⁸ When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

⁴ I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

¹² To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

¹⁴ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

¹⁵ Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

⁵ For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

³ Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

¹⁰ But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.