Going for company with those working iniquity, and to go with men of injustice?
Happy the man who went not in the counsel of the unjust, and he stood not in the way of the sinful, and sat not in the seat of those scoffing.
Be not deceived: evil intercourses corrupt good habits.
He going with the wise, and he is wise: and the companion of the foolish shall become evil.
If thou sawest a thief, and thou wilt run with him, and thy portion with those committing adultery.
I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.
To deliver thee from the evil way, from the man speaking deceit;
My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:
In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.
Wilt thou watch the path of old which men of iniquity trod?
For thy mouth will accustom itself to thine iniquity, and thou wilt choose the tongue of the crafty.
Shall thy empty talks cause men to be silent? and wilt thou deride and none making ashamed?
And he will say to her, According to the word of one of the foolish women thou wilt speak. Shall we also receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this. Job sinned not with his lips.
For he said, It will not profit a man in delighting himself with God.