Then he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
Keep my commandments and live;

And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:

"Whoso is ignorant, let him come hither!" And to the unwise she said,

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

For it is better to have it said to you, Come up here; than for you to be put down in a lower place before the ruler.

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'

So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, 'Am not I playing?'

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'

Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it is not satisfied with water, And fire -- it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'

So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'