Bible Verses About Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God

How wretched I am, that I'm an alien in Meshekh, that I must live among the tents of Keidar!

I have had to live far too long with those who hate peace.

God, if only you would kill off the wicked! Men of blood, get away from me!

My son, if sinners entice you, don't go along with them.

Suppose they say, "Come with us: we'll ambush somebody and kill him, we'll waylay some harmless soul, just for fun;

we'll swallow him alive, like Sh'ol, whole, like those who descend to the pit;

we'll find everything he has of value, we'll fill our homes with loot!

Throw in your lot with us; we'll share a common purse"-

my son, don't go along with them, don't set foot on their path;

For wisdom will enter your heart, knowledge will be enjoyable for you,

discretion will watch over you, and discernment will guard you.

They will save you from the way of evil and from those who speak deceitfully,

who leave the paths of honesty to walk the ways of darkness,

who delight in doing evil and take joy in being stubbornly deceitful,

from those whose tracks are twisted and whose paths are perverse.

They will save you from a woman who is a stranger, from a loose woman with smooth talk,

who abandons the ruler she had in her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Her house is sinking toward death, her paths lead to the dead.

None who go to her return; they never regain the path to life.

Thus you will walk on the way of good people and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Don't follow the path of the wicked or walk on the way of evildoers.

Avoid it, don't go on it, turn away from it, and pass on.

Don't stay unsure of yourself, but live! Walk in the way of understanding!"

He who farms his land will have plenty of food, but he who follows futilities has no sense.

Keep clear of a fool, for you won't hear a sensible word from him.