Unfriendliness

Proverbs regarding uncordiality, unfriendliness

My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!
If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.
We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.
Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal."
My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;
for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.
Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,
but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!
Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!
Prov. 1:10-19 (read whole chapter)
Do not enter the path of the wicked or walk in the way of those who are evil.
Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.
Prov. 4:14-15 (read whole chapter)
Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."
Prov. 9:6 (read whole chapter)
The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
Prov. 13:20 (read whole chapter)
Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,
lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Prov. 22:24-25 (read whole chapter)
Whoever shares with a thief is his own enemy; he hears the oath to testify, but does not talk.
Prov. 29:24 (read whole chapter)

From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship.

And he answered, saying:

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor do you withhold the “ay.”

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain. And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.