Proverbs 2:12-22

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.

²²But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.