Proverbs 2:10-19

Proverbs 2:10-19

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

a. Both the male and female in this passage are former believers, both are backslid.

1). The male left “the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness”.

2) The female is described as the strange woman, abandoned “the guide of her youth” and forgot “the covenant of her God.”