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| [1]My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding; |
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| [2]That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
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| [3]For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; |
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| [4]But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. |
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| [5]Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world; |
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| [6]Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not. |
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| [7]Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
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| [8]Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house; |
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| [9]Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel; |
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| [10]Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien; |
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| [11]And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
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| [12]And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
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| [13]Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
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| [14]I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.' |
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| [15]Drink waters out of thine own cistern, an running waters out of thine own well. |
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| [16]Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets. |
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| [17]Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
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| [18]Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth. |
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| [19]A lovely hind and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always. |
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| [20]Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien? |
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| [21]For the ways of man are before the eyes of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, and He maketh even all his paths. |
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| [22]His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin. |
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| [23]He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel. |
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