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Discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you
AT: "Because you know what is right and wrong you will not be making mistakes" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
Discretion
being careful in actions and speech
They will rescue you
AT: "Discretion and understanding will rescue you" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification)
from the way of evil, from those who speak perverse things
These two phrases refer to two different aspects of evil to describe the full range of evil. AT: "from doing evil and talking in an evil way" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism)
they abandon
The word "they" refers to the people who speak perverse things.
abandon
leave and never return to someone or something