who travels 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.”
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.
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,
Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches. All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning. If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil.
Will you keep to the old way that 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 from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
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