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22 During your travels wisdom[a] will lead you;
    she will watch over you while you rest;
and when you are startled from your sleep,
    she will commune with you.
23 Because the command is a lamp
    and the Law a light,
        rebukes that discipline are a way of life—
24 to protect you from the evil[b] woman,
    from the words of the seductive woman.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 6:22 Lit. wisdom; i.e. wisdom personified as a woman
  2. Proverbs 6:24 So MT; LXX reads married