Proverbs 2:12-20
English Standard Version
12 delivering you from the way of evil,
from men of perverted speech,
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness
to (A)walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who (B)rejoice in doing evil
and (C)delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 men whose (D)paths are crooked,
(E)and who are (F)devious in their ways.
16 So (G)you will be delivered from the forbidden[a] woman,
from (H)the adulteress[b] with (I)her smooth words,
17 who forsakes (J)the companion of her youth
and forgets (K)the covenant of her God;
18 (L)for her house sinks down to death,
and her paths to the departed;[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
20 So you will walk in the way of the good
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew strange
- Proverbs 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman
- Proverbs 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim
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