1. My son, pay attention to my wisdom.Listen to my words of understanding.
2. Be careful to use good sense.Watch what you say.
3. The words of another man’s wife may seem sweet as honey.Her words may be as pleasant as olive oil.
4. But in the end she will bring you sorrow.She will cause you pain like a two-edged sword.
5. She is on the way to death.Her steps are headed straight to the grave.
6. She gives no thought to life.She does not know that her ways are wrong.
7. Now, my sons, listen to me.Don’t ignore what I say.
8. Stay away from such a woman.Don’t even go near the door of her house.
9. If you do, you will give your riches to others.And the best years of your life will be given to someone who is cruel.
10. Strangers will enjoy your wealth.And what you worked so hard for will go to someone else.
11. You will groan at the end of your life.Then your health will be gone.
12. Then you will say, “I hated self-control!I would not listen when I was corrected!
13. I would not listen to my teachers.I paid no attention to what they taught me.
14. I have come very close to being completely ruinedin front of a whole group of people.”