¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee,
Consent thou not.
¹¹ If they say, Come with us,
Let us lay wait for blood;
Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,
^[a]And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
¹³ We shall find all precious substance;
We shall fill our houses with spoil;
^14 [b]Thou shalt cast thy lot among us;
We will all have one purse:
¹⁵ My son, walk not thou in the way with them;
Refrain thy foot from their path:
¹⁶ For their feet run to evil,
And they make haste to shed blood.
¹⁷ For in vain is the net spread
In the sight of any bird:
¹⁸ And these lay wait for their own blood;
They lurk privily for their own lives.
¹⁹ So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

²⁹ A man of violence enticeth his neighbor,
And leadeth him in a way that is not good.

²⁶ As a ^[a]troubled fountain, and a corrupted spring,
So is a righteous man that ^[b]giveth way before the wicked.

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty;
But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

¹⁰ Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way,
He shall fall himself into his own pit;
But the perfect shall inherit good.