¹¹ Discretion will preserve you;
^(A)Understanding will keep you,
¹² To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
¹³ From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To ^(B)walk in the ways of darkness;
^14 (C)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
^15 (D)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
¹⁶ To deliver you from ^(E)the immoral woman,
^(F)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
¹⁷ Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
¹⁸ For ^(G)her house ^[a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
¹⁹ None who go to her return,
Nor do they ^[b]regain the paths of life—
²⁰ So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
²¹ For the upright will dwell in the ^(H)land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
²² But the wicked will be ^[c]cut off from the ^[d]earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

¹² A worthless person, a wicked man,
Walks with a perverse mouth;
^13 (A)He winks with his eyes,
He ^[a]shuffles his feet,
He points with his fingers;
¹⁴ Perversity is in his heart,
^(B)He devises evil continually,
^(C)He sows discord.
¹⁵ Therefore his calamity shall come ^(D)suddenly;
Suddenly he shall ^(E)be broken ^(F)without remedy.

^16 (A)Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
But a fool lays open his folly.