Proverbs 2:16–22

Proverbs 2:16–22 (Listen)

16   So you will be delivered from the forbiddenHebrew strange">1 woman,
    from the adulteressHebrew foreign woman">2 with her smooth words,
17   who forsakes the companion of her youth
    and forgets the covenant of her God;
18   for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;Hebrew to the Rephaim">3
19   none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.

20   So you will walk in the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21   For the upright will inhabit the land,
    and those with integrity will remain in it,
22   but the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.

Footnotes

[2] 2:16 Hebrew foreign woman

[3] 2:18 Hebrew to the Rephaim