Proverbs Chapter 1 7-19

Listen, my son, to your father's instruction
and forsake not the teaching of your mother.
They will be a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck.
My son, if sinners entice you,
do not give into them.
If they say, "Come along with us;
let us lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily 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 things
and fill our houses with plunder;
throw your lot in with us,
let us all share a common purse" -
my son, do not go along with them,
refrain your foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil,
they are swift to shed blood.
How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they waylay only themselves!
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain.