20 For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the  wicked is extinguished.
         
                                
                        21 Fear Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not  up thyself,
         
                                
                        22 For suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of  them both -- who knoweth!
         
                                
                        23 These also are for the wise: --  To discern faces in  judgment is not good.
         
                                
                        24 Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou [art] righteous,`  Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him.
         
                                
                        25 And to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh  a good blessing.
         
                                
                        26 Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.