^{15 Ref} Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

^{16 Ref} To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

^{17 Ref} Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

^{18 Ref} For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.