She has sent out her women-servants; her voice goes out to the highest places of the town, saying,

She rises while it is still night, preparing meals for her family and providing for her women servants.

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

A woman who is full of grace is honoured, but a woman hating righteousness is a seat of shame: those hating work will undergo loss, but the strong keep their wealth.

Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;

For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

For [the] price of a woman, a prostitute, [is the] price of a loaf of bread, but the {woman belonging to a man} hunts precious life.

Every wise woman builds her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

Don't lie about a servant to his master, or that servant will curse you and you will pay for it.