2. in order to safeguard discretion,and that your lips may guard knowledge.
3. For the lips of the adulterous woman drip honey,and her seductive words are smoother than olive oil,
4. but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,sharp as a two-edged sword.
5. Her feet go down to death;her steps lead straight to the grave.
6. Lest she should make level the path leading to life,her paths are unstable but she does not know it.
7. So now, children, listen to me;do not turn aside from the words I speak.
8. Keep yourself far from her,and do not go near the door of her house,
9. lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,
10. lest strangers devour your strength,and your labor benefit another man’s house.
11. And at the end of your life you will groanwhen your flesh and your body are wasted away.
12. And you will say, “How I hated discipline!My heart spurned reproof!
13. For I did not obey my teachersand I did not heed my instructors.