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¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom; incline thine ear to my understanding;² That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.³ For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on the nether-world;⁶ Lest she should walk the even path of life, her ways wander, but she knoweth it not. ⁷ Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house;⁹ Lest thou give thy vigour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, and thy labours be in the house of an alien;¹¹ And thou moan, when thine end cometh, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,¹² And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;¹³ Neither have I hearkened to the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!¹⁴ I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.'

¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.¹⁶ Let thy springs be dispersed abroad, and courses of water in the streets.¹⁷ Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.¹⁹ A lovely hind and a graceful doe, ²⁰ Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?²¹ For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He maketh even all his paths.²² His own iniquities shall ensnare the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.²³ He shall die for lack of instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall reel.