7. And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.
8. Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,
9. Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,
10. Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
11. And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,
12. And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,