⁹ Then you will understand what is honest and fair and right.
    You will understand what is good to do.
¹⁰ You will have wisdom in your heart.
    And knowledge will be pleasing to you.
¹¹ Good sense will protect you.
    Understanding will guard you.
¹² It will keep you from doing evil.
    It will save you from people whose words are bad.
¹³ Such people do not do what is right.
    They do what is evil.
¹⁴ They enjoy doing wrong.
    They are happy to do what is crooked and evil.
¹⁵ What they do is wrong.
    Their ways are dishonest.

¹⁶ It will save you from the unfaithful wife
    who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
¹⁷ Such women leave the husbands they married when they were young.
    They forget the promise they made before God.
¹⁸ If you go to her house, you are on your way to death.
    What she does leads to death.
¹⁹ No one who goes to her comes back.
    He will not continue to live.

²⁰ But wisdom will help you be a good person.
    It will help you do what is right.
²¹ Those who are honest will stay in the land.
    Those who are innocent will remain in it.
²² But evil people will be removed from the land.
    The unfaithful will be thrown out of it.