^{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;

^{19 Ref} None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:

^{20 Ref} That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.