Proverbs 2:10–22

¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul, ¹¹discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee: ¹²To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things; ¹³from those who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; ¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil; ¹⁵whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course: ¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words; ¹⁷who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God; ¹⁸—for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead; ¹⁹none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: ²⁰—that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous. ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it; ²²but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.