³¹ Don’t envy violent people
    or copy their ways.

24 Don’t envy evil people
    or desire their company.

¹⁷ Don’t envy sinners,
    but always continue to fear the Lord.

¹ Don’t worry about the wicked
    or envy those who do wrong.

¹⁹ Don’t fret because of evildoers;
    don’t envy the wicked.
²⁰ For evil people have no future;
    the light of the wicked will be snuffed out.

¹² Thieves are jealous of each other’s loot,
    but the godly are well rooted and bear their own fruit.

¹² Wisdom will save you from evil people,
    from those whose words are twisted.
¹³ These men turn from the right way
    to walk down dark paths.
¹⁴ They take pleasure in doing wrong,
    and they enjoy the twisted ways of evil.
¹⁵ Their actions are crooked,
    and their ways are wrong.

¹⁵ My child, don’t go along with them!
    Stay far away from their paths.
¹⁶ They rush to commit evil deeds.
    They hurry to commit murder.
¹⁷ If a bird sees a trap being set,
    it knows to stay away.
¹⁸ But these people set an ambush for themselves;
    they are trying to get themselves killed.