Proverbs 2:12-22
New American Standard Bible
12 To (A)rescue you from the way of evil,
From a person who speaks (B)perverse things;
13 From those who (C)leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the (D)ways of darkness;
14 Who (E)delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15 Whose paths are (F)crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
16 To (G)rescue you from the strange woman,
From the (H)foreign woman who flatters with her words,
17 Who leaves the (I)companion of her youth
And forgets the (J)covenant of her God;
18 For (K)her house sinks down to death,
And her tracks lead to the [a]dead;
19 None (L)who go to her return,
Nor do they reach the (M)paths of life.
20 So you will (N)walk in the way of good people
And keep to the (O)paths of the righteous.
21 For (P)the upright will live in the land,
And (Q)the blameless will remain in it;
22 But (R)the wicked will be eliminated from the land,
And (S)the treacherous will be (T)torn away from it.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:18 Lit departed spirits
Proverbs 2:12-22
New International Version
12 Wisdom will save(A) you from the ways of wicked men,
from men whose words are perverse,
13 who have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways,(B)
14 who delight in doing wrong
and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(C)
15 whose paths are crooked(D)
and who are devious in their ways.(E)
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(F)
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](G)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(H)
19 None who go to her return
or attain the paths of life.(I)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God
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