24 translations I found; and they all carry the same message. Bad company will corrupt good manners. Though you may love your friends or your company, know this; if yalls morals, vision, standards aren't on the same plane, someone is losing out. You may not be lazy, eccentric, carrying whore-monger tendencies, but know if your "company" does, no matter how stable or grounded you think you are, eventually, you'll find yourself in the same ships as them, wondering how you got there. God hides those he's working on and for real for real, I rather be hidden in these times and come out clean. I've come out scathed and unscathed. The choice is yours on how long you endure as well as what you're enduring. I'm using my free will wisely