¹⁰ For wisdom will enter into your heart.
    Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
¹¹ Discretion will watch over you.
    Understanding will keep you,

²⁰ So you may walk in the way of good men,
    and keep the paths of the righteous.

¹⁴ Don’t enter into the path of the wicked.
    Don’t walk in the way of evil men.
¹⁵ Avoid it, and don’t pass by it.
    Turn from it, and pass on.
¹⁶ For they don’t sleep unless they do evil.
    Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
¹⁷ For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light
    that shines more and more until the perfect day.
¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like darkness.
    They don’t know what they stumble over.

²⁰ One who walks with wise men grows wise,
    but a companion of fools suffers harm.

²⁸ A perverse man stirs up strife.
    A whisperer separates close friends.

¹² Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man,
    rather than a fool in his folly.

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times;
    and a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ A man of many companions may be ruined,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁴ Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor is separated from his friend.

⁶ Many will entreat the favor of a ruler,
    and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts.
⁷ All the relatives of the poor shun him:
    how much more do his friends avoid him!
    He pursues them with pleas, but they are gone.