11. For by me [Wisdom from God] your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
12. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty.
13. The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she [willfully and recklessly] knows nothing whatever [of eternal value].
14. For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town,
15. Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way:
16. Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,
17. Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.]
18. But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).