from those who abandon the right paths
to walk in ways of darkness,

for I am giving you good instruction.
Don’t abandon my teaching.

Don’t abandon wisdom, and she will watch over you;
love her, and she will guard you.

Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."

A letting forth of water, is the beginning of strife, therefore, before it breaketh out, abandon, contention.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him;
How much more do his friends abandon him!
He pursues them with words, but they are gone.

Don’t abandon your friend or your father’s friend,
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.

Without prophetic vision, people abandon restraint, but those who obey the Law are happy.