Proverbs 2:10-20
Legacy Standard Bible
10 For (A)wisdom will enter your heart
And (B)knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11 Discretion will (C)keep you,
Discernment will guard you,
12 To (D)deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks (E)perverse things;
13 From those who (F)forsake the paths of uprightness
To walk in the (G)ways of darkness;
14 Who are (H)glad to do evil
And they rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15 Whose paths are (I)crooked,
And who are devious in their tracks;
16 To deliver you from the [a](J)strange woman,
From the [b](K)foreign woman who flatters with her words;
17 Who forsakes the close (L)companion of her youth
And forgets the (M)covenant of her God;
18 For (N)her house [c]sinks down to death
And her tracks descend to the [d]dead;
19 All (O)who go to her will not return,
And they will not reach the (P)paths of life.
20 So that you will (Q)walk in the way of good men
And keep to the (R)paths of the righteous.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:16 A forbidden woman, outside of the marriage covenant; an adulteress; parallel with foreign woman; so in Prov
- Proverbs 2:16 An unfamiliar woman, alien to the marriage covenant; parallel with strange woman
- Proverbs 2:18 Lit bows down
- Proverbs 2:18 Lit departed spirits
Proverbs 2:10-20
Common English Bible
10 Wisdom will enter your mind,
and knowledge will fill you with delight.
11 Discretion will guard you;
understanding will protect you.
12 Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path,
from people who twist their words.
13 They forsake the way of integrity
and go on obscure paths.
14 They enjoy doing evil,
rejoicing in their twisted evil.
15 Their paths are confused;
they get lost on their way.
16 Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman,
from the foreign woman with her slick words.
17 She leaves behind the partner of her youth;
she even forgets her covenant with God.
18 Her house sinks down to death,
and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.
19 All those who go to her will never return;
they will never again reach the ways of the living.
20 So you should stay on the path of good people,
guarding the road of the righteous.
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