American Standard Version

Proverbs 2:11-19 American Standard Version (ASV)

11. Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

12. To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse 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 perverseness of evil;

15. Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

16. To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

17. That 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: