Proverbs 2:10-20

GOD’S WORD Translation

¹⁰ Wisdom will come into your heart.
Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
¹¹ Foresight will protect you.
Understanding will guard you.

¹² ⌞Wisdom will⌟ save you
from the way of evil,
from the person who speaks devious things,
¹³ from those who abandon the paths of righteousness
to walk the ways of darkness,
¹⁴ from those who enjoy doing evil,
from those who find joy in the deviousness of evil.
¹⁵ Their paths are crooked.
Their ways are devious.

¹⁶ ⌞Wisdom will⌟ also save you
from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk,
¹⁷ who leaves ⌞her husband,⌟ the closest friend of her youth,
and forgets her marriage vows to her God.
¹⁸ Her house sinks down to death.
Her ways lead to the souls of the dead.
¹⁹ None who have sex with her come back.
Nor do they ever reach the paths of life.

²⁰ So walk in the way of good people
and stay on the paths of righteous people.