¹⁰ for wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.^[a]
11 Discretion will watch over you;
    understanding will protect you,

²⁰ So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
    and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.

¹⁴ In the path of the wicked do not go;
    do not walk in the way of those who do evil.
¹⁵ Avoid it; do not transgress it;
    turn away from it and pass by.
¹⁶ For they will not sleep if they have not done wrong,
    and they are robbed of their sleep if they do not cause stumbling.
¹⁷ For they ate the bread of wickedness,
    and they drank the wine of violence.
¹⁸ But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn,
    leading and shining until the day is full.^[a]
19 The way of the wicked ones is like deep darkness;
    they do not know what they stumble over.

²⁰ Walk with the wise and be wise,
    but as for the companion of fools, he will suffer harm.

²⁸ A person of perversity will spread dissent,
    and he who whispers separates a close friend.

¹² May a man meet a she-bear robbed of offspring
    and not a fool in his folly.

¹⁷ The friend loves at all times^[a],
    but a brother is born for adversity.

²⁴ A man of many friends will come to ruin,
    but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

⁴ Wealth adds many friends,
    but the poor will be left by his friends.

⁶ Many will seek favor before the generous,
    and everyone is the friend of a man of gifts.^[a]
7 All the brothers of the poor, if they hate him,
    how much more will his friends keep away from him.
    He pursues them with words, and they are gone.^[b]