¹⁰ When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
¹¹ Discretion will preserve you;
^(A)Understanding will keep you,
¹² To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
¹³ From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To ^(B)walk in the ways of darkness;
^14 (C)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
^15 (D)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
¹⁶ To deliver you from ^(E)the immoral woman,
^(F)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
¹⁷ Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
¹⁸ For ^(G)her house ^[a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;

⁵ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards his soul will be far from them.