Proverbs 2:12-22 ▼

12 delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,

13 and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;

14 who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;

15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways,

16 delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,

17 someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.

18 For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.

19 None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.

20 This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright will live in the land, and people of integrity will remain in it.

22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.