To deliver you from the evil way, From the man who speaks perversities,
Do not be led astray, “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
He who walks with the wise, shall be wise, But the companion of fools suffers evil.
“The fear of יהוה is to hate evil. I have hated pride and arrogance, And the evil way, And the perverse mouth.
Therefore, “Come out from among them and be separate, says יהוה, and do not touch what is unclean, and I shall receive you.
“Also from among yourselves men shall arise, speaking distorted teachings, to draw away the taught ones after themselves.
Leave the simple ones and live, And walk in the way of understanding.
For the perverse one is an abomination to יהוה, And His secret counsel is with the straight.
Let not my heart be inclined to evil, To practise deeds of wrongness With men working wickedness, And let me not eat of their delicacies.
A perverse heart turns away from me; I do not know evil.
A man of Beliyaʽ
The lips of the righteous know what is pleasing, But the mouth of the wrong speaks perverseness.
Your eyes look on strange women, And your heart speaks perversities.
He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But he who walks wisely is delivered.