12. Saving you from the way of the wicked,from those whose speech is perverse.
13. From those who have left the straight pathsto walk in the ways of darkness,
14. Who delight in doing eviland celebrate perversity;
15. Whose ways are crooked,whose paths are devious;
16. Saving you from a stranger,from a foreign woman with her smooth words,
17. One who forsakes the companion of her youthand forgets the covenant of her God;
18. For her path sinks down to death,and her footsteps lead to the shades.
19. None who enter there come back,or gain the paths of life.
20. Thus you may walk in the way of the good,and keep to the paths of the just.
21. For the upright will dwell in the land,people of integrity will remain in it;