Avoid it—do not travel on it— turn away from it and pass by.
Take no part in the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them—
keep away from every kind of evil.
If you return to Shaddai, you will be restored; if you remove iniquity far from your tent
if you put away the wickedness that is in your hand, and allow no iniquity to abide in your tent,
Stay far away from a false charge. Do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the guilty.
One who walks righteously, and speaks uprightly, who refuses unjust gain by extortion, who shakes his hands free of bribes, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking on evil.
Escape like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
Keep your path far from her and do not go near the door of her house—
Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evil people.
For they cannot sleep until they do evil. They are robbed of sleep until they make someone fall.
My son, do not go along with them, keep your foot from their path—
Do not envy evil people, or desire to be with them,