¹⁴ Do not enter the path of the wicked,
    and do not walk in the way of evildoers.^(A)
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
    turn away from it and pass on.
¹⁶ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
    they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.^(B)
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
    and drink the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
    which shines brighter and brighter until full day.^(C)
19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
    they do not know what they stumble over.^(D)

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

⁷ Leave the presence of a fool,
    for there you do not find words of knowledge.

¹⁹ It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor
    than to divide the spoil with the proud.

¹⁹ A gossip reveals secrets;
    therefore do not associate with a babbler.^(A)

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
    the cautious will keep far from them.^(A)

²⁴ Make no friends with those given to anger,
    and do not associate with hotheads,
²⁵ lest you learn their ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

⁶ Do not eat the bread of the stingy;
    do not desire their delicacies,^(A)
7 for like a hair in the throat, so are they.^[a]
    “Eat and drink!” they say to you,
    but they do not mean it.^(B)
8 You will vomit up the little you have eaten,
    and you will waste your pleasant words.

²⁰ Do not be among winebibbers
    or among gluttonous eaters of meat,^(A)
21 for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty,
    and drowsiness will clothe them with rags.^(B)