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10 Wisdom will come into your mind,
    and knowledge will be pleasing to you.
11 Good sense will protect you;
    understanding will guard you.
12 It will keep you from the wicked,
    from those whose words are bad,
13 who don’t do what is right
    but what is evil.
14 They enjoy doing wrong
    and are happy to do what is crooked and evil.
15 What they do is wrong,
    and their ways are dishonest.

16 It will save you from the unfaithful wife
    who tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.
17 She leaves the husband she married when she was young.
    She ignores the promise she made before God.
18 Her house is on the way to death;
    those who took that path are now all dead.
19 No one who goes to her comes back
    or walks the path of life again.

20 But wisdom will help you be good
    and do what is right.

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