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(C) 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,(D)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(E)
15 whose paths are crooked(F)
    and who are devious in their ways.(G)

16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(H)
    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](I)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(J)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.(K)

20 Thus you will walk in the ways of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Read full chapter

Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God

10 For wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11 Discretion[a] will protect you;
    understanding will watch over you,
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men who speak perverse things,
13 and from those who abandon the right[b] path
    to travel along the ways of darkness;
14 who delight in doing evil,
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
15 whose paths are crooked
    and who are devious in their ways,
16 delivering you from the adulteress,
    from the immoral[c] woman with her seductive words,
17 someone who abandoned the companion of her youth
        and forgot the covenant of her God.
18 For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
19 None who go to her return,
nor do they reach the paths of life.

20 This is how you will walk in the way of good men
    and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

Read full chapter

Notas al pie

  1. Proverbs 2:11 Or Wise planning
  2. Proverbs 2:13 Lit. straight or upright
  3. Proverbs 2:16 Lit. foreign; i.e. one whose values are foreign to God’s Law