Proverbs 2:10-20

World English Bible

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter into your heart.
    Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
¹¹ Discretion will watch over you.
    Understanding will keep you,
¹² to deliver you from the way of evil,
    from the men who speak perverse things,
¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness,
    to walk in the ways of darkness,
¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil,
    and delight in the perverseness of evil,
¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways,
    and wayward in their paths,
¹⁶ to deliver you from the strange woman,
    even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
¹⁷ who forsakes the friend of her youth,
    and forgets the covenant of her God;
¹⁸ for her house leads down to death,
    her paths to the departed spirits.
¹⁹ None who go to her return again,
    neither do they attain to the paths of life.
²⁰ So you may walk in the way of good men,
    and keep the paths of the righteous.