Proverbs 2:12-17 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

12. so that you may be rescued from the evil way, and from the man who speaks perversities,

13. from those who leave the straight path to walk in dark ways,

14. who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.

15. Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.

16. So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,

17. and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,

Proverbs 2