¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,^(A)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.^(B)

¹² Wisdom will save^(A) you from the ways of wicked men,
    from men whose words are perverse,
¹³ who have left the straight paths
    to walk in dark ways,^(B)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,^(C)
15 whose paths are crooked^(D)
    and who are devious in their ways.^(E)

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷ who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.^[a](B)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(C)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.^(D)

²¹ For the upright will live in the land,^(A)
    and the blameless will remain in it;
²² but the wicked^(B) will be cut off from the land,^(C)
    and the unfaithful will be torn from it.^(D)