My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. (Proverbs 1:10 KJV)
My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not. (Proverbs 1:10 ASV)
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not. (Proverbs 1:10 DBY)
My son, if sinners entice you, don’t consent. (Proverbs 1:10 WEB)
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing. (Proverbs 1:10 YLT)
Interlinear
My son, <ben> if sinners <chatta’> entice <pathah> thee, consent <‘abah> thou not. (Proverbs 1:10 KJV)
Adam Clarke’s Commentary
Verse 10. If sinners entice thee, consent thou not.] אל תבא al tobe, WILL-not. They can do thee no harm unless thy will join in with them. God’s eternal purpose with respect to man is that his will shall be free; or, rather, that the will, which is essentially FREE, shall never be forced nor be forceable by any power. Not even the devil himself can lead a man into sin till he consents. Were it not so, how could God judge the world?
British Family Bible
My son, if sinners entice thee, &c. The next and most important advice is, to avoid ill company. “The whole world lieth in wickedness,” saith an Apostle, 1Jo 5:19; and nothing can be more proper or seasonable than for instructors of youth to caution their inexperience against bad examples. The wise man here instances in one particular vice, the love of money, as being the most predominant and common of all others; and shews how it leads to the most enormous crimes, and is indeed the very “root of all evil.” Wogan.