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.

⁷ Stay away from a foolish man,
    for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

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

¹⁹ He who goes about as a tale-bearer reveals secrets;
    therefore don’t keep company with him who opens wide his lips.

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked:
    whoever guards his soul stays from them.

⁶ Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye,
    and don’t crave his delicacies:
⁷     for as he thinks about the cost, so he is.
    “Eat and drink!” he says to you,
    but his heart is not with you.
⁸ The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,
    and lose your good words.

²⁰ Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine,
    or those who gorge themselves on meat:
²¹ for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor;
    and drowsiness clothes them in rags.