Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil.

Avoid it, do not travel on it; Turn away from it and pass on.

Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.

He who walks with wise [men] will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.

Blessed [is] the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

I have not sat with idolatrous mortals, Nor will I go in with hypocrites.

I have hated the assembly of evildoers, And will not sit with the wicked.

Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."

Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil.

Remove your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house,

I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word.

Thus says the LORD to this people: "Thus they have loved to wander; They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will remember their iniquity now, And punish their sins."