¹¹ Discretion^[a] will protect you;
    understanding will watch over you,
¹² delivering you from the way of evil,
    from men who speak perverse things,
¹³ and from those who abandon the right^[b] path
    to travel along the ways of darkness;
¹⁴ who delight in doing evil,
    and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
¹⁵ whose paths are crooked
    and who are devious in their ways,
¹⁶ delivering you from the adulteress,
    from the immoral^[c] woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷ someone who abandoned the companion of her youth
        and forgot the covenant of her God.
¹⁸ For her house leads down to death,
    and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
¹⁹ None who go to her return,
nor do they reach the paths of life.

²⁰ This is how you will walk in the way of good men
    and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

²¹ For the upright will live in the land,
    and people of integrity will remain in it.
²² But the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

¹¹ What the righteous say^[a] is a flowing fountain,^[b]
    but what the wicked say^[c] conceals violence.
¹² Hatred awakens contention,
    but love covers all transgressions.
¹³ Wisdom characterizes the speech^[d] of the discerning,
    but the rod is for the backs of those lacking discernment.

¹⁸ Whoever conceals hatred is a deceitful liar,
    and whoever spreads slander is a fool.

¹⁵ The lifestyle of the fool is right in his own opinion,
    but wise is the man who listens to advice.
¹⁶ The anger of a fool becomes readily apparent,
    but the prudent person overlooks an insult.

¹⁷ The truth teller speaks what is right,
    but the false witness speaks what is^[a] deceitful.
¹⁸ Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword,
    but what the wise say promotes healing.

¹⁶ Every sensible person acts from knowledge,
    but a fool demonstrates folly.