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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, an 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, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; with her love be thou ravished always.
[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 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, 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.
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