⁷ For the upright, he stores^[a] sound judgment, a shield for those who walk uprightly,
⁸ in order to guard paths of justice
    and keep^[b] the way of his faithful ones.
⁹ Then you will understand righteousness and justice
    and uprightness—every good course—
¹⁰ for wisdom will enter your heart,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.^[c]
11 Discretion will watch over you;
    understanding will protect you,
¹² in order to deliver you from the way of evil,^[d]
    from a man who speaks devious things—
¹³ those who forsake the paths of uprightness
    to walk in ways of darkness,
¹⁴ those who are happy to do evil,
    for they delight in the deviousness of evil,
¹⁵ who are crooked in their ways,^[e]
    and devious in their paths;
¹⁶ in order to deliver you from a strange woman,
    from a foreign woman who flatters^[f] with her sayings,
¹⁷ she who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and has forgotten the covenant of her God,
¹⁸ for her house sinks to death,
    and to the dead^[g] are her paths.
¹⁹ Of all who go to her, none shall return,
    nor do they reach paths of life.
²⁰ So that you will walk on the road of those who are good,
    and the paths of those who are righteous you shall keep.
²¹ For those who are upright will dwell in the land,^[h]
    and those who are blameless^[i] will remain in it.
²² And those who are wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and those who are treacherous will be uprooted from it.

²⁰ My child, keep the commandment of your father,
    and do not disregard the instruction of your mother.
²¹ Bind them on your heart continually;
    tie them upon your neck.
²² When you walk,^[a] she^[b] will lead you,
    When you lie down,^[c] she will watch over you,
    and when you awake, she will converse with you.
²³ For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light,
    and the way of life^[d] is the reproof of discipline,
²⁴ in order to preserve you from an evil woman,^[e]
    from the smoothness of the tongue of an adulteress.^[f]

7 My child, guard my sayings;
    store my commandments with you.
² Keep my commands and live,
    and my teaching like the apple of your eye.^[a]
3 Bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.
⁴ Say to wisdom,^[b] “you are my sister,”
    and you shall call insight,^[c] “intimate friend.”^[d]
5 In order to guard yourself from an adulteress,^[e]
    from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.^[f]

¹⁹ In many words, transgression is not lacking,
    but he who restrains his lips is prudent.