^{3 Ref} For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

^{4 Ref} But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

^{5 Ref} Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

^{6 Ref} Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

^{7 Ref} Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

^{8 Ref} Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

^{9 Ref} Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

^{10 Ref} Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

^{11 Ref} And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

^{12 Ref} And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

^{13 Ref} And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

^{14 Ref} I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

^{15 Ref} Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.