4. If thou seekest her as kesef, and searchest for her as for matmonim (hidden treasures);
5. Then shalt thou understand the Yirat Hashem, and find the Da'as Elohim.
6. For Hashem giveth chochmah; out of His Peh (mouth) cometh da'as (knowledge) and tevunah (understanding).
7. He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones); He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.
8. He keepeth the orkhot mishpat, and is shomer over the derech of His Chasidim.
9. Then shalt thou understand tzedek, and mishpat, and mesharim (equity, fairness) --every ma'agal tov (good path).
10. When chochmah entereth into thine lev, and da'as (knowledge) is pleasant unto thy nefesh;
11. Mezimah (discretion) shall be shomer over thee, tevunah (understanding) shall safeguard thee;
12. To save thee from the derech rah, from the ish medaber tahpukhot (man speaking perverse things);
13. Who leaving the orkhot yosher (paths of uprightness), walk in the drakhei choshech (ways of darkness);
14. Who rejoice to do rah, and delight in the tahpukhot (perverse things) of rah (evil);
15. Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths);
16. To save thee from the isha zarah (strange woman), even from the nokhriyah (strange [immoral] woman) which useth smooth words;
17. Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d.
18. For her bais inclineth toward mavet, and her ma'agalot (paths) to the refa'im (spirits of the dead).