Bible Verses About Company

And I also have said, I do not cast them out from your presence, and they have been to you for adversaries, and their gods are to you for a snare.'

As to the worthless--As a thorn driven away are all of them, For--not by hand are they taken;

And the man who cometh against them Is filled with iron and the staff of a spear, And with fire they are utterly burnt In the cessation.'

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

And mix themselves among nations, and learn their works,

Woe to me, for I have inhabited Mesech, I have dwelt with tents of Kedar.

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

I am peace, and when I speak they are for war!

Do not I hate, Jehovah, those hating Thee? And with Thy withstanders grieve myself?

With perfect hatred I have hated them, Enemies they have become to me.

My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is--to all of us.'

My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

To deliver thee from an evil way, From any speaking froward things,

Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

Shew not thyself friendly with an angry man, And with a man of fury go not in,

Lest thou learn his paths, And have received a snare to thy soul.

For thus hath Jehovah spoken unto me with strength of hand, and instructeth me against walking in the way of this people, saying,

`Ye do not say, A confederacy, To all to whom this people saith, A confederacy, And its fear ye do not fear, Nor declare fearful.

Ephraim! among peoples he mixeth himself, Ephraim hath been a cake unturned.