Evildoers: Come on! Everyone, hide and let’s wait to see whom we can beat to a pulp.
        We’re going to jump some unsuspecting chumps for no reason at all.
¹²     We’ll have our way with them, and when we’re through, there will be nothing left,
        as if their bodies were swallowed whole by the grave’s dark pit.
¹³     We’ll take whatever we want—all their wealth and their fancy clothes—
        and when we’re through, we’ll have piles of their treasure for our own.
¹⁴     You have to join us; forget about God.
        We’re going to rake in the goods, and we’ll share all we take!

¹⁵ My son, do not join them;
    keep well away from their violent, destructive paths.
¹⁶ For they run right away, every time, to do wrong,
    and they are thirsty for blood.
¹⁷ You see, it makes no sense to bait the net and set the trap
    while the bird is watching,
¹⁸ But these hiding in the shadows and waiting to spill innocent blood
    are really just hastening their own destruction!
By giving in to their sinful desires,
    they set themselves up to be ambushed.
¹⁹ This is what happens to everyone who tries to profit by violence;
    violence will eventually rob them of their very lives.

²⁶ Like a muddy spring or a polluted fountain,
    so is a righteous person who gives in to the wicked.

³ Heavy is rock and weighty is sand,
    but more burdensome than either is the anger of a fool.

¹⁰ Whoever tries to deceive a good person into taking the path of evil
    will fall into the pit he himself made,
    but the truly honest shall be the heirs of all that is good.