New Century Version

Proverbs 2:11-18 New Century Version (NCV)

11. Good sense will protect you;understanding will guard you.

12. It will keep you from the wicked,from those whose words are bad,

13. who don’t do what is rightbut what is evil.

14. They enjoy doing wrongand are happy to do what is crooked and evil.

15. What they do is wrong,and their ways are dishonest.

16. It will save you from the unfaithful wifewho tries to lead you into adultery with pleasing words.

17. She leaves the husband she married when she was young.She ignores the promise she made before God.

18. Her house is on the way to death;those who took that path are now all dead.