who goes in company with evildoers and walks with wicked men?
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;
Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
If you see a thief, you are a friend of his; and you keep company with adulterers.
I do not sit with false men, nor do I consort with dissemblers;
delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
my son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their paths;
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.
Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
Should your babble silence men, and when you mock, shall no one shame you?
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should take delight in God.’