²⁷ The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,^(A)
    turning a person from the snares of death.^(B)

¹⁴ The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,^(A)
    turning a person from the snares of death.^(B)

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,^(A)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.^(B)

¹² Wisdom will save^(C) 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,^(D)
14 who delight in doing wrong
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,^(E)
15 whose paths are crooked^(F)
    and who are devious in their ways.^(G)

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(H)
    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](I)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(J)

⁶ He will be the sure foundation for your times,
    a rich store of salvation^(A) and wisdom and knowledge;
    the fear^(B) of the Lord is the key to this treasure.^[a](C)

⁵ In the paths of the wicked are snares and pitfalls,^(A)
    but those who would preserve their life stay far from them.

⁵ The cords of the grave coiled around me;
    the snares of death^(A) confronted me.

²⁶ I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,^(A)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.^(B)