Proverbs 2:12

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10 When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

11 Discretion will preserve you;
^aUnderstanding will keep you,

12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,

13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To ^awalk in the ways of darkness;

14 ^aWho rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;

15 ^aWhose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;

16 To deliver you from ^athe immoral woman,
^bFrom the seductress who flatters with her words,

17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.

18 For ^aher house leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;

19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they¹ regain the paths of life—

20 So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.

21 For the upright will dwell in the ^aland,
And the blameless will remain in it;

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Proverbs 2:12-15

The evil-doers here include not robbers and murderers only Proverbs 1:10-16, but all who leave the straight path and the open day for crooked ways, perverse counsels, deeds of darkness. "To delight etc." Proverbs 2:14 is the lowest depth of all.

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