Proverbs 2:16-19

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁶ You will be saved from the loose woman,^[a]
    from the adulteress^[b] with her smooth words,^(A)
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant,
¹⁸ for her way^[c] leads down to death
    and her paths to the shades;^(B)
19 those who go to her never come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.