Proverbs 4:14

Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].

Ver. 14. Enter not into the path of the wicked.] Qui male vivunt, et peius credunt, saith one, which live ill, and believe worse. Qui aequo animo malis immiscetur, malus est, saith another. a He that is well content to keep company with those that are naught, is himself naught. The river Dee, in Merionethshire, running through Pimblemeer, remains entire, and mingles not her streams with the waters of the lake. See 1 Corinthians 5:9,11 .

And go not in the way.] Ne tibi placeat via malorum; so the Vulgate. Think not thyself happy in their company, applaud not their way. Verbum eundi significationem felicitatis habet in multis linguis. b The Hebrew word to go signifies also to be happy; and Solomon haply here would take it in both senses.

a Fuller's Holy State, 162.

b אשׁר, incessit, felicitavit. Ita συμβαινειν et ενοδουσθαι Graecis. Il va bien, Gallicis.