Proverbs 2:10–22

¹⁰Your heart will become wise.

Your mind will delight in knowledge.

¹¹Good sense will keep you safe.

Understanding will guard you.

¹²Wisdom will save you from the ways of evil men.

It will save you from men who twist their words.

¹³Men like that leave the straight paths

to walk in dark ways.

¹⁴They take delight in doing what is wrong.

They take joy in twisting everything around.

¹⁵Their paths are crooked.

Their ways are not straight.

¹⁶Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery.

It will save you from a sinful wife and her tempting words.

¹⁷She leaves the man she married when she was young.

She breaks the promise she made to her God.

¹⁸Her house leads down to death.

Her paths lead to the spirits of the dead.

¹⁹No one who goes to her comes back

or reaches the paths of life.

²⁰You will walk in the ways of good people.

You will follow the paths of those who do right.

²¹Honest people will live in the land.

Those who are without blame will remain in it.

²²But sinners will be cut off from the land.

Those who aren’t faithful will be torn away from it.