Proverbs 1:8-19

8Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

9for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

10My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.

11If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

12like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;

14throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse"—

15my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths,

16for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.

17For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird,

18but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives.

19Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.