11discretion willwatch over you,understanding will guard you,12delivering you from the way of evil,from men of perverted speech,13who forsake the paths of uprightnesstowalk in the ways of darkness,14whorejoice in doing evilanddelight in the perverseness of evil,15men whosepaths are crooked,and who aredevious in their ways.16Soyou will be delivered from the forbidden[a]woman,fromthe adulteress[b]withher smooth words,17who forsakesthe companion of her youthand forgetsthe covenant of her God;18for her house sinks down to death,and her paths to the departed;[c]19none who go to her come back,nor do they regain the paths of life.20So you will walk in the way of the goodand keep to the paths of the righteous.21For the uprightwill inhabit the land,and those with integrity will remain in it,22but the wicked will becut off from the land,and the treacherous will berooted out of it.