Proverbs [Sayings] 2:14-22

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

¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· of her God:

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

¹⁹None who go to her teshuvah ·completely return· again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

²⁰that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the upright.

²¹For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.