8. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
9. They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
10. My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
11. If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay 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 things and fill our houses with plunder;
14. throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"-
15. my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
16. for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
17. How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
18. These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
19. Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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Parents usually want to teach the best things for their child.
God should be the only one to entice me... though this isn't easy.
Temptation from sinners to commit sin together will always come up. Even though we all know it in our head that joining sinners with their sins is like "How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!", it is usually not as obvious.
Only through God's wisdom, I pray that I'll be able to see things clearly so that I don't give into deceit.
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