2That youⁱ may regard discretion, and [that] youⁱ lips may keep knowledge.

3For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:

4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

6Lest youⁱ should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] youⁱ cannot know [them].

7Hear me now therefore, O you^2f children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

8Remove youⁱ way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:

9Lest youⁱ give youⁱ honour unto others, and youⁱ years unto the cruel:

10Lest strangers be filled with youⁱ wealth; and youⁱ labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

11And youⁱ mourn at the last, when youⁱ flesh and youⁱ body are consumed,

12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof (rebuke; scolding);

13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

15Drink waters out of youⁱ own cistern, and running waters out of yourⁱ own well.

16Let youⁱ fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.

17Let them be only youⁱ own, and not strangers' with youⁱ.

18Let youⁱ fountain be Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous): and rejoice with the wife of youⁱ youth.

19[Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy youⁱ at all times; and be youⁱ ravished always with her love.

20And why will youⁱ, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], and he ponders all his goings.

22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.

23He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.