²⁰ Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?

²⁴ They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.

⁵ So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

¹ Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:

¹⁶ To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

¹⁷ Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:

¹⁸ For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

¹⁹ Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

¹⁴ The mouth of strange women is a deep hole: he with whom the Lord is angry will go down into it.

²⁷ For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

²⁸ Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.