^{12 Ref} Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;

^{13 Ref} Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

^{14 Ref} Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

^{15 Ref} Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

^{16 Ref} To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

^{17 Ref} Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

^{18 Ref} For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

^{19 Ref} Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

^{20 Ref} So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.