Proverbs 2:9-15

Good News Translation

⁹ If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do. ¹⁰ You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure. ¹¹ Your insight and understanding will protect you ¹² and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say— ¹³ those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin, ¹⁴ those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, ¹⁵ unreliable people who cannot be trusted.