Shun Evil Counsel

[8] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: [9] For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. [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 the grave; 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] Cast in thy lot among us; let us 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 make haste to shed blood. [17] Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. [18] And they 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; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

• Wisdom

A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

• Wisdom

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

• Children

A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.