¹¹ Discretion will protect you,
    and understanding will guard you.^(A)

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

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(G)
    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](H)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(I)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.^(J)