Proverbs

¹⁶[Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.] ¹⁷Who forsakes the husband and guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. ¹⁸For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead]. ¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain or regain the paths of life. ²⁰So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God). ²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it; ²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.