who keeps company with evildoers, and walks with wicked men?
Will your idle talk silence men and will no one rebuke you when you mock?
For your iniquity prompts your mouth and you choose the tongue of the crafty.
He said to her, “You speak as any foolish woman would speak. Should we accept the good from God and not accept the bad?” Through all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Will you keep to the old way that wicked men have trod?
For he says, ‘It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.’
Happy is the one who has not walked in the advice of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of scoffers.
I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and your portion is with adulterers.
My son, do not go along with them, keep your foot from their path—
He who walks with wise men is wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
to deliver you from the way of evil, from those speaking perverse things,
Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil people.
Do not be deceived! “Bad company corrupts good morals.”