Proverbs 2:11-22

American Standard Version

¹¹ Discretion shall watch over thee;
Understanding shall keep thee:
¹² To deliver thee from the way of ^[a]evil,
From the men that 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 ^[b]evil;
¹⁵ Who are crooked in their ways,
And wayward in their paths:
¹⁶ To deliver thee from the strange woman,
Even from the foreigner that ^[c]flattereth with her words;
¹⁷ That forsaketh the ^[d]friend of her youth,
And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
¹⁸ For ^[e]her house inclineth unto death,
And her paths unto ^[f]the dead;
¹⁹ None that go unto her return again,
Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
²⁰ That thou mayest walk in the way of good men,
And keep the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright shall dwell in the ^[g]land,
And the perfect shall remain in it.
²² But the wicked shall be cut off from the land,
^[h]And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.