New Revised Standard Version
The righteous gives good advice to friends, but the way of the wicked leads astray.

Contemporary English Version
You are better off to do right, than to lose your way by doing wrong.

New American Bible
The just act as guides to their neighbors, but the way of the wicked leads them astray.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.

He that neglecteth a loss for the sake of a friend, is just: but the way of the wicked shall deceive them.

righteous

Proverbs 12:13 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress.

Proverbs 17:27 He that setteth bounds to his words, is knowing and wise: and the man of understanding is of a precious spirit.

Psalm 16:3 To the saints, who are in his land, he hath made wonderful all my desires in them.

Matthew 5:46-48 For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this? . . .

Luke 6:32-36 And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? For sinners also love those that love them. . . .

1 Peter 2:18-21 Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear, not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward. . . .

excellent or abundant

Psalm 18:12,13 At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire. . . .

James 1:13,14 Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted by God. For God is not a tempter of evils: and he tempteth no man. . . .

2 Peter 2:18-22 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: . . .

1 John 2:26 These things have I written to you concerning them that seduce you.

Revelation 12:9 And that great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, who seduceth the whole world. And he was cast unto the earth: and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 13:14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.