Proverbs 2:7-19

⁷He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

⁸He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

⁹Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

¹⁰For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

¹¹Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

¹²Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

¹³Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

¹⁴Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

¹⁵Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

¹⁶To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

¹⁷Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

¹⁸For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

¹⁹Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life: