²⁹ A violent person entices their neighbor
    and leads them down a path that is not good.^(A)

²⁶ The righteous choose their friends carefully,
    but the way of the wicked leads them astray.^(A)

¹² Wisdom will save^(A) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
¹³ who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,^(B)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,^(C)
15 whose paths are crooked^(D)
    and who are devious in their ways.^(E)

³¹ Do not envy^(A) the violent
    or choose any of their ways.

¹⁰ My son, if sinful men entice^(A) you,
    do not give in^(B) to them.^(C)
11 If they say, “Come along with us;
    let’s lie in wait^(D) for innocent blood,
    let’s ambush some harmless soul;
¹² let’s swallow^(E) them alive, like the grave,
    and whole, like those who go down to the pit;^(F)
13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
    and fill our houses with plunder;
¹⁴ cast lots with us;
    we will all share the loot^(G)”—