Proverbs 2:16-22

New International Reader's Version

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery.
    It will save you from a sinful woman and her tempting words.
¹⁷ She has left the man she married when she was young.
    She has broken the promise she made in front of God.
¹⁸ Surely her house leads down to death.
    Her paths lead to the spirits of the dead.
¹⁹ No one who goes to her comes back
    or reaches the paths of life.

²⁰ You will walk in the ways of good people.
    You will follow the paths of those who do right.
²¹ Honest people will live in the land.
    Those who are without blame will remain in it.
²² But sinners will be cut off from the land.
    Those who aren’t faithful will be torn away from it.