Proverbs 2

International Standard Version

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom,
    and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
⁷ He stores up sound wisdom for the upright
    and is a shield to those who walk in integrity—
⁸ guarding the paths of the just
    and protecting the way of his faithful ones.

⁹ Then you will understand what is right, just,
    and upright—every good path.
¹⁰ For wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹¹ Discretion^[b] will protect you;
    understanding will watch over you,
¹² delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men who speak perverse things,
¹³ and from those who abandon the right^[c] path
    to travel along the ways of darkness;
¹⁴ who delight in doing evil,
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
¹⁵ whose paths are crooked
    and who are devious in their ways,
¹⁶ delivering you from the adulteress,
    from the immoral^[d] woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷ someone who abandoned the companion of her youth
        and forgot the covenant of her God.
¹⁸ For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
¹⁹ None who go to her return,
nor do they reach the paths of life.

²⁰ This is how you will walk in the way of good men
    and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹ For the upright will live in the land,
    and people of integrity will remain in it.
²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.