Common English Bible

Proverbs 2:16-22 Common English Bible (CEB)

16. Wisdom will rescue you from the mysterious woman,from the foreign woman with her slick words.

17. She leaves behind the partner of her youth;she even forgets her covenant with God.

18. Her house sinks down to death,and her paths go down to the shadowy dead.

19. All those who go to her will never return;they will never again reach the ways of the living.

20. So you should stay on the path of good people,guarding the road of the righteous.

21. Those who have integrity will dwell in the land;the innocent will remain in it.

22. But the wicked will be cut off from the land,and the treacherous will be ripped up.