Who goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, And walketh with wicked men?
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of scoffers:
Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.
Walk with wise men, and thou shalt be wise; But the companion of fools shall smart for it.
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.
I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers.
To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:
Enter not into the path of the wicked, And walk not in the way of evil men.
Wilt thou keep the old way Which wicked men have trodden?
For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?
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.
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing That he should delight himself with God.