8. Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
9. Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.
10. For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11. Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
12. To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
13. From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
14. Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
15. Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
16. To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
17. That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;