Proverbs 2:9-16

⁹Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgement; and shall direct all your course aright.

¹⁰For if wisdom shall come into your understanding, and discernment shall seem pleasing to your soul,

¹¹good counsel shall guard you, and holy understanding shall keep you;

¹²to deliver you from the evil way, and from the man that speaks nothing faithfully.

¹³Alas for those who forsake right paths, to walk in ways of darkness;

¹⁴who rejoice in evils, and delight in wicked perverseness;

¹⁵whose paths are crooked, and their courses winding;

¹⁶to remove you far from the straight way, and to estrange you from a righteous purpose. My son, let not evil counsel overtake you,