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Proverbs 2:7-16 English Standard Version (ESV)

7. he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

8. guarding the paths of justiceand watching over the way of his saints.

9. Then you will understand righteousness and justiceand equity, every good path;

10. for wisdom will come into your heart,and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11. discretion will watch over you,understanding will guard you,

12. delivering you from the way of evil,from men of perverted speech,

13. who forsake the paths of uprightnessto walk in the ways of darkness,

14. who rejoice in doing eviland delight in the perverseness of evil,

15. men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.

16. So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,from the adulteress with her smooth words,