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15 those whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
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whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
16 You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
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Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth and forgets her sacred covenant;
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who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
18 for her way leads down to death, and her paths to the shades;
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Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
19 those who go to her never come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
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None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
20 Therefore walk in the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the just.
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Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will abide in the land, and the innocent will remain in it;
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For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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