Don’t follow the path evil people walk on. \{Don’t live like that.\} Don’t try to be like them.
A person will be truly happy if he\par doesn’t follow the advice of bad people\par and doesn’t live like sinners\par and doesn’t feel at home with people\par who don’t respect God. {\cf2\super [1]} \par
My son, some people love to do bad things—and those people will try to make you do bad things too. Don’t listen to them!
My son, don’t follow those people. Don’t even take the first step along that path.
Be friends with people who are wise, and you will become wise. But if you choose fools to be your friends, then you will have trouble.
If you do, you may learn to be like him. Then you will have the same troubles he has.
Don’t be jealous of evil people. Don’t even want to be around them.
Stay away from evil. Don’t go near it. Walk straight past it.
Stay away from the woman who does the sin of adultery. {\cf2\super [5]} Don’t even go near the door of her house.
He walked through the market place toward that bad woman’s corner and walked straight to her house.
Leave your old, foolish ways, and you will have life. Follow the way of understanding.”
Don’t be fooled: “Bad friends will ruin good habits.”