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My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.

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

If they say, "Come with us, Let's lie in wait for blood, Let's ambush the innocent without cause;

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Let's swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, like those who go down to the pit;

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with plunder;

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Throw in your lot with us; We will all have one money bag,"

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

My son, do not walk on the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

For their feet run to evil, And they are quick to shed blood.

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Such are the ways of everyone who makes unjust gain; It takes away the life of its possessors.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

A person of violence entices his neighbor And leads him in a way that is not good.

A violent man enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him into the way that is not good.

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well, So is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty, But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

One who leads the upright astray in an evil way Will himself fall into his own pit, But the blameless will inherit good.

Whoso causeth the righteous to go astray in an evil way, he shall fall himself into his own pit: but the upright shall have good things in possession.