¹⁰ My child, if sinners entice you,
    do not consent.^(A)
11 If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood;
    let us wantonly ambush the innocent;^(B)
12 like Sheol let us swallow them alive
    and whole, like those who go down to the Pit.^(C)
13 We shall find all kinds of costly things;
    we shall fill our houses with spoil.
¹⁴ Throw in your lot among us;
    we will all have one purse”—
¹⁵ my child, do not walk in their way;
    keep your foot from their paths,^(D)
16 for their feet run to evil,
    and they hurry to shed blood.^(E)
17 For in vain is the net baited
    while the bird is looking on;

¹⁸ You make friends with a thief when you see one,
    and you keep company with adulterers.^(A)

²⁰ Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
    but the companion of fools suffers harm.^(A)