^{10 Ref} For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

^{11 Ref} Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

^{12 Ref} To deliver thee from the way of evil, From the men that speak perverse things;

^{13 Ref} Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

^{14 Ref} Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

^{15 Ref} Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

^{16 Ref} To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

^{17 Ref} That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:

^{18 Ref} For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;