16. [Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.]
17. Who forsakes the husband and guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18. For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead].
19. None who go to her return again, neither do they attain or regain the paths of life.
20. So may you walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the [consistently] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God).
21. For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the men of integrity, blameless and complete [in God's sight], shall remain in it;
22. But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.