Proverbs 2:10-19

10For [skillful and godly] wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

11Discretion will watch over you, Understanding and discernment will guard you,

12To keep you from the way of evil and the evil man, From the man who speaks perverse things;

13From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

14Who find joy in doing evil And delight in the perversity of evil,

15Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

16To keep you from the immoral woman; From the seductress with her flattering words,

17Who leaves the companion (husband) of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.

18For her house leads down to death And her paths lead to the dead;

19None who go to her return again, Nor do they regain the paths of life—