10If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
11Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
12That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
13Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
14Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
17And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
18And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
19None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
20That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
21For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.