Proverbs 24:18-24

¹⁸lest peradventure the Lord see, and it displease him, and he take away his ire or his wrath from him.

¹⁹Strive thou not with the worst men, neither pursue or follow thou wicked men.

²⁰For why evil men have not hope of things to come, and the lantern of wicked men shall be quenched.

²¹My son, dread thou God, and the king; and be thou not meddled or mingled with backbiters.

²²For their perdition shall rise together suddenly, and who knoweth the fall of ever either?

²³Also these things that pursue be to wise men. It is not good to know a person in doom.

²⁴Peoples shall curse them that say to a wicked man, Thou art just or rightwise; and lineages shall hold them abominable.