perhaps the intended audience is not the young person himself, but the parent who needs to find words to teach the conflicted young person. Solomon’s method of reasoning is simple. He says that peer pressure is a trap. It is an enticement, which comes from the word patah (deceive). Peer pressure is a deception because it promises acceptance and glory, but in the end is only abandonment and shame. The youth gang or fashionable clique will beckon, “Join us and be somebody.” But those who join in their