8. That he may guard the paths of judgment, and preserve the way of his saints.
9. Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, yea, every good path.
10. For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
11. Discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee:
12. To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the men that speak froward things;
13. Who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14. Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of evil;
15. Who are crooked in their ways, and perverse in their paths:
16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
17. Which forsaketh the friend of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God:
18. For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead:
19. None that go unto her return again, neither do they attain unto the paths of life: