[1:8] Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and forsake not your mother’s teaching,
[1:9] for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
[1:10] My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
[1:11] If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;
[1:12] like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
[1:13] we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;
[1:14] throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse”—
[1:15] my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,
[1:16] for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
[1:17] For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,
[1:18] but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.
[1:19] Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.