Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
That thou mayest walk in the way of good [men], and keep the paths of the righteous.
