Proverbs 2:10-20

Holman Christian Standard Bible

¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your mind,
and knowledge will delight your heart.
¹¹ Discretion will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you,^(A)
12 rescuing you from the way of evil—
from the one who says perverse things,
¹³ from those who abandon the right paths
to walk in ways of darkness,^(B)
14 from those who enjoy doing evil^(C)
and celebrate perversion,
¹⁵ whose paths are crooked,^(D)
and whose ways are devious.^(E)
16 It will rescue you from a forbidden woman,^(F)
from a stranger^[a] with her flattering talk,^(G)
17 who abandons the companion of her youth^(H)
and forgets the covenant of her God;
¹⁸ for her house sinks down to death
and her ways to the land of the departed spirits.^(I)
19 None return who go to her;
none reach the paths of life.^(J)
20 So follow the way of good people,^(K)
and keep to the paths of the righteous.