8. Listen, my son, to your father’s instructionand do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
9. They are a garland to grace your headand a chain to adorn your neck.
10. My son, if sinful men entice you,do not give in to them.
11. If they say, ‘Come along with us;let’s lie in wait for innocent blood,let’s ambush some harmless soul;
12. let’s swallow them alive, like the grave,and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
13. we will get all sorts of valuable thingsand fill our houses with plunder;
14. cast lots with us;we will all share the loot’ –
15. my son, do not go along with them,do not set foot on their paths;
16. for their feet rush into evil,they are swift to shed blood.
17. How useless to spread a netwhere every bird can see it!