¹¹ Discretion will watch over you.
    Understanding will keep you,
¹² to deliver you from the way of evil,
    from the men who speak perverse things,
¹³ who forsake the paths of uprightness,
    to walk in the ways of darkness,
¹⁴ who rejoice to do evil,
    and delight in the perverseness of evil,
¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways,
    and wayward in their paths,
¹⁶ to deliver you from the strange woman,
    even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
¹⁷ who forsakes the friend of her youth,
    and forgets the covenant of her God;
¹⁸ for her house leads down to death,
    her paths to the departed spirits.
¹⁹ None who go to her return again,
    neither do they attain to the paths of life.
²⁰ So you may walk in the way of good men,
    and keep the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright will dwell in the land.
    The perfect will remain in it.
²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land.
    The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

³¹ Don’t envy the man of violence.
    Choose none of his ways.
³² For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
    but his friendship is with the upright.

⁶ Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
    but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

¹¹ The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life,
    but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.
¹² Hatred stirs up strife,
    but love covers all wrongs.
¹³ Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment,
    but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.