Proverbs 2:11-22

Amplified Bible

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Discretion will watch over you,
Understanding and discernment will guard you,
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To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
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From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who find joy in doing evil
And delight in the perversity of evil,
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Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
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To keep you from the immoral woman;
From the seductress with her flattering words,^(A)
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Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
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For her house leads down to death
And her paths lead to the dead;
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None who go to her return again,
Nor do they regain the paths of life—
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So you will walk in the way of good men [that is, those of personal integrity, moral courage and honorable character],
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright [those who are in right standing with God] will live in the land
And those [of integrity] who are blameless [in God’s sight] will remain in it;
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous shall be [forcibly] uprooted and removed from it.