lest you should meditate on the path of life, her tracks are movable; you cannot know them.

And now hear me, O sons, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

Remove your ways far from her, and do not come near the door of her house,

that strangers not be filled with your strength, and your labors be in the house of a stranger;

lest you give your honor to others and your years to the cruel;

and you moan when your end comes, when your flesh and muscle are eaten away,

My son, listen to my wisdom; bow your ear to my understanding;

For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and He watches all his paths.

and say, How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised correction;

and I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor bowed down my ears to those who taught me!

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, and her palate is smoother than oil;

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

Like the loving deer and pleasant doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times, and be ravished always with her love.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.

but afterward she is as bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Should your overflowing spring be scattered abroad as rivers of waters in the streets.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell,

And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

in order to keep discretion, that your lips may keep knowledge.

Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.