¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them,
    hold back your foot from their path!

¹⁹ This is the way of everyone greedy for loot:
    it takes away their lives.

⁸ Guarding the paths of justice,
    protecting the way of his faithful ones,
⁹ Then you will understand what is right and just,
    what is fair, every good path;

^12 [a]Saving you from the way of the wicked,
    from those whose speech is perverse.
¹³ From those who have left the straight paths
    to walk in the ways of darkness,

¹⁵ Whose ways are crooked,
    whose paths are devious;