## 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