Catholic Public Domain Version
"and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth, "
— Proverbs 2:17, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
“That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God: ”
“who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:”
“who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.”
“And forsaketh the guide of her youth,”
“Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:”
“Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.”
who rejoice when they have done evil, and who exult in the most wicked things.
Their ways are perverse, and their steps are infamous.
So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
and who leaves behind the Guide of her youth,
and who has forgotten the covenant of her God. For her household inclines toward death, and her paths toward Hell.
All those who enter to her will not return again, nor will they take hold of the paths of life.
So may you walk in the good way, and keep to the difficult paths of the just.