Proverbs 2:16-22

English Standard Version

¹⁶ So ^(A)you will be delivered from the forbidden^[a] woman,
    from ^(B)the adulteress^[b] with ^(C)her smooth words,
¹⁷ who forsakes ^(D)the companion of her youth
    and forgets ^(E)the covenant of her God;
^18 (F)for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;^[c]
19 none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

²⁰ So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
²¹ For the upright ^(G)will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
²² but the wicked will be ^(H)cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be ^(I)rooted out of it.