He keeps company with evildoers and walks with wicked men.
Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company corrupts good morals.’
The one who walks with the wise will become wise, but a companion of fools will suffer harm.
It will rescue you from the way of evil – from anyone who says perverse things,
my son, don’t travel that road with them or set foot on their path,
Keep off the path of the wicked; don’t proceed on the way of evil ones.
Will you continue on the ancient path that wicked men have walked?
Your iniquity teaches you what to say, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Should your babbling put others to silence, so that you can keep on ridiculing with no one to humiliate you?
‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.
For he has said, ‘A man gains nothing when he becomes God’s friend.’
