Proverbs 2:10-19

10You will become wise in your thoughts. Your knowledge of what is right will make you happy.

11You will know the right thing to do, and that will keep you safe.

12You will not join with wicked people. You will keep away from those who speak false things.

13Those people no longer follow honest ways. They live in dark places.

14They enjoy doing wicked and evil things.

15They only do wrong things. They are always deceiving others.

16If you have wisdom, you will not listen to the sweet words of a prostitute. A woman who likes to have sex with many men will not deceive you.

17That kind of woman leaves her own husband. She married him when she was young. Now she forgets what she promised to God at the time of her marriage.

18Do not go into her house! If you do, you will be on the road to death. If you follow her, you will arrive at the home of the spirits of dead people.

19Anybody who visits her will never return. He will never find the way back to a good life.