¹² To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

¹⁷ wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,

³³ Be not led astray; evil communications corrupt good manners;

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

¹³ The fear of Jehovah `is' to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and an evil way, And a froward mouth, I have hated.

³⁰ and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

³ For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

⁴ There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

⁵ Eggs of a viper they have hatched, And webs of a spider they weave, Whoso is eating their eggs doth die, And the crushed hatcheth a viper.

²⁸ A froward man sendeth forth contention, A tale-bearer is separating a familiar friend.

²⁹ A violent man enticeth his neighbour, And hath causeth him to go in a way not good.

³⁰ Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

⁶ Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not `some' to stumble.

¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

³² For an abomination to Jehovah `is' the perverted, And with the upright `is' His secret counsel.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

¹¹ If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

¹² We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,

¹³ Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil,

¹⁴ Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'

¹⁵ My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

¹⁶ For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

¹⁷ Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.

¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

¹⁹ So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.

⁴ Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

⁴ A perverse heart turneth aside from me, Wickedness I know not.

⁴ I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

⁵ I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

⁴ As to doings of man, Through a word of Thy lips I have observed The paths of a destroyer;

⁵ To uphold my goings in Thy paths, My steps have not slidden.