Proverbs 2:19 {20}
Good News Translation
No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

New Revised Standard Version
those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.

Contemporary English Version
Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again.

New American Bible
None who enter there come back, or gain the paths of life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

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That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

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Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Jeremiah 13:23 If the Ethiopian can change his skin, or the leopard his spots: you also may do well, when you have learned evil.

Hosea 4:14 I will not visit upon your daughters, when they shall commit fornication, and upon your spouses when they shall commit adultery: because themselves conversed with harlots, and offered sacrifice with the effeminate, and the people that doth not understand shall be beaten.

Matthew 19:24-26 And again I say to you: It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

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Proverbs 4:18 The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.

Hebrews 6:18 That by two immutable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest comfort, we who have fled for refuge to hold fast the hope set before us.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
18None that go in unto her, shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life. 19That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.20For they that are upright, shall dwell in the earth; and the simple shall continue in it.…
Cross References
Psalm 16:11
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life, thou shalt fill me with joy with thy countenance: at thy right hand are delights even to the end.

Proverbs 5:6
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Ecclesiastes 7:26
And I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is the hunter's snare, and her heart is a net, and her hands are bands. He that pleaseth God shall escape from her: but he that is a sinner, shall be caught by her.

Proverbs 2:18
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