Prov.2.12

They'll keep you from making wrong turns, or following the bad directions

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Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

Prov.2.12

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

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Wisdom will save you from evil people, from those whose speech is corrupt.

Prov.2.13

Of those who are lost themselves and can't tell a trail from a tumbleweed,

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who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

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From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

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These people turn from right ways to walk down dark and evil paths.

Prov.2.14

These losers who make a game of evil and throw parties to celebrate perversity,

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who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

Prov.2.14

Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked;

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They rejoice in doing wrong, and they enjoy evil as it turns things upside down.

Prov.2.15

Traveling paths that go nowhere, wandering in a maze of detours and dead ends.

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whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Prov.2.15

Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths;

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What they do is crooked, and their ways are wrong.

Prov.2.16

Wise friends will rescue you from the Temptress--that smooth-talking Seductress

Prov.2.16

It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,

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To deliver you from the immoral woman, From the seductress who flatters with her words,

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Wisdom will save you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the adulterous woman.

Prov.2.17

Who's faithless to the husband she married years ago, never gave a second thought to her promises before God.

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who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.

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

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She has abandoned her husband and ignores the covenant she made before God.

Prov.2.18

Her whole way of life is doomed; every step she takes brings her closer to hell.

Prov.2.18

For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

Prov.2.18

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

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Entering her house leads to death; it is the road to hell.

Prov.2.19

No one who joins her company ever comes back, ever sets foot on the path to real living.

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None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

Prov.2.19

None who go to her return, Nor do they regain the paths of life--

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The man who visits her is doomed. He will never reach the paths of life.

Prov.2.20

So--join the company of good men and women, keep your feet on the tried and true paths.

Prov.2.20

Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Prov.2.20

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

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Follow the steps of good men instead, and stay on the paths of the righteous.

Prov.2.21

It's the men who walk straight who will settle this land, the women with integrity who will last here.

Prov.2.21

For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

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For the upright will dwell in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

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For only the upright will live in the land, and those who have integrity will remain in it.

Prov.2.22

The corrupt will lose their lives; the dishonest will be gone for good.

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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.

Prov.2.22

But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

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But the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be destroyed.