Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice:

She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words:

If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure;

To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings;

Forsaking the friend of her youth, and forgetting the covenant of her God.

For her house sunk down to death, and her tracks to the shades.

For good her gain above the gain of silver, and her increase above gold.

She is precious above red corals: and all thy delights shall not be equal with her.

Length of days in her right hand; in her left, riches and honor.

Her ways the ways of pleasantness, and all her beaten paths, peace.

She is a tree of life to all holding upon her: and happy he holding her fast

Thou shalt not forsake her, and she will watch thee: love her, and she will guard thee.

Lift her up and she shall exalt thee: she will honor thee when thou. shalt embrace her.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

For the lips of the strange woman will drop droppings of the honeycomb, and her palate is smooth above oil:

And her latter state being bitter as wormwood; sharp as a two-mouthed sword.

Her feet go down to death; her steps will hold fast to hades.

Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

Which no leader to her, scribe and ruler;

She will prepare in summer her bread, gathering her food in harvest.

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

So he going in to his neighbor's wife; all touching upon her shall not be innocent

To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,

She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house:

She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him,

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her.

Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.

Shall not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?

For wisdom is good above pearls, and all delights shall not be made equal with her.

Wisdom built her house, she hewed out her seven pillars:

She slaughtered her slaughter; she mingled her wine; also she prepared her table.

She sent forth her girls: she will call upon the wings of the heights of the city,

Who the simple, he shall turn aside here: he wanting heart, she said to him,

And sitting at the door of her house, upon the throne of the heights of the city,

Who is simple, he shall turn aside here: and he wanting heart, and she said to him,

And he knew not that there the shades; her called ones in the depths of hades

A woman of strength is a crown to her husband: and she causing shame, as rottenness in his bones.

The wise woman built her house but the foolish will pull it down with her hands.

A foolish son a grief to his father, and bitterness to her bringing him forth.

As the bird wandering from her nest, so is a man wandering from his place.

He hiding her, hid the wind, and he shall call the oil of his right hand.

So the way of a woman committing adultery; eating and wiping her mouth, and saying, I transgressed not

For a hated woman when she shall be married and a maid when she shall inherit to her mistress.

Who shall find a woman of virtue? for her price is far above pearls.

The heart of her husband trusted in her, and he shall not want spoil.

She rewarded him good and not evil all the days of her life.

She sought wool and flax, and she will work in delight with her hands.

She was as the ships of the merchant; from far off she will bring her bread.

She will rise while yet night, and she will give food to her house, and a portion to her girls.

She purposed a field, and he will take it: from the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard.

She girded her loins with strength, and she will strengthen her arms.

She tasted that her traffic is good: her light will not go out by night

She sent forth her hands upon the spindle, and her hands take hold of the whirl.

She spread forth her hands to the poor, and sent forth her hands to the needy.

She will not fear for her house from snow, for all her house put on double.

She made for herself coverings; byssus and purple her clothing.

Her husband was known in the gates, in his sitting with the old men of the land.

Strength and ornament her clothing; and she will laugh to the last day.

She opened her mouth in wisdom, and the law of mercy upon her tongue.

She viewed the goings of her house, and the bread of sloth she will not eat

Her sons rose up and they will call her happy; her husband, and he will praise her.

Ye shall give her from the fruit of her hands, and her works shall praise her in the gates.