¹¹ Discretion will guard you;
    understanding will protect you.
¹² Wisdom will rescue you from the evil path,
    from people who twist their words.
¹³ They forsake the way of integrity
    and go on obscure paths.
¹⁴ They enjoy doing evil,
    rejoicing in their twisted evil.
¹⁵ Their paths are confused;
    they get lost on their way.
¹⁶ Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman,
    from the foreign woman with her slick words.
¹⁷ She leaves behind the partner of her youth;
    she even forgets her covenant with God.
¹⁸ Her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.
¹⁹ All those who go to her will never return;
    they will never again reach the ways of the living.
²⁰ So you should stay on the path of good people,
    guarding the road of the righteous.
²¹ Those who have integrity will dwell in the land;
    the innocent will remain in it.
²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be ripped up.

³¹ Don’t envy violent people
    or choose any of their ways.
³² Devious people are detestable to the Lord,
    but the virtuous are his close friends.

¹² Worthless people and guilty people
    go around with crooked talk.
¹³ They wink their eyes, gesture with their feet,
    and point with their fingers.
¹⁴ Their hearts are corrupt and determined to do evil;
    they create controversies all the time.
¹⁵ Therefore, sudden disaster will come upon them;
    they will be quickly broken beyond healing.

⁶ Blessings cover the head of the righteous,
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

¹¹ The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
¹² Hate stirs up conflict,
    but love covers all offenses.
¹³ Wisdom is found on the lips of those who have understanding,
    but there is a rod for the back of those with no sense.

¹⁸ Lying lips conceal hate,
    and those who spread slander are fools.