Proverbs 1 JPS Tanakh 1917 (biblehub.com)

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My son, if sinners entice thee,

Consent thou not.

If they say: ‘Come with us,

Let us lie in wait for blood,

Let us lurk for the innocent without cause;

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave,

And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

We shall find all precious substance,

We shall fill our houses with spoil;

Cast in thy lot among us;

Let us all have one purse’—

My son, walk not thou in the way with them,

Restrain thy foot from their path;

For their feet run to evil,

And they make haste to shed blood.

For in vain the net is spread

In the eyes of any bird;

And these lie in wait for their own blood,

They lurk for their own lives.

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;

It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

“Proverbs 1 JPS Tanakh 1917 (biblehub.com)