¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you,
    don’t consent.

²³ Keep your heart with all diligence,
    for out of it is the wellspring of life.
²⁴ Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
    Put corrupt lips far from you.
²⁵ Let your eyes look straight ahead.
    Fix your gaze directly before you.
²⁶ Make the path of your feet level.
    Let all of your ways be established.
²⁷ Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left.
    Remove your foot from evil.

⁹ He who walks blamelessly walks surely,
    but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

⁵ The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way,
    but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them,
    but the unfaithful will be trapped by evil desires.

¹² There is a way which seems right to a man,
    but in the end it leads to death.

¹⁶ A wise man fears and shuns evil,
    but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

²² Don’t they go astray who plot evil?
    But love and faithfulness belong to those who plan good.

³ Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere,
    keeping watch on the evil and the good.

⁶ By mercy and truth iniquity is atoned for.
    By the fear of Yahweh men depart from evil.

¹⁷ The highway of the upright is to depart from evil.
    He who keeps his way preserves his soul.