²⁶ I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

¹⁴ The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: He who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.

³ For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

⁴ But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, And as sharp as a two-edged sword.

⁵ Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.

¹⁶ To deliver you from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁸ For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead.

¹⁹ None who go to her return again, Neither do they attain to the paths of life:

²⁶ For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

¹⁸ When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.

¹⁹ She made him sleep on her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

²⁰ She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

²¹ The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison-house.

²¹ With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

²² He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose.

²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

²⁴ Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

²⁵ Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

²⁶ For she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

¹⁸ But he doesn't know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

²⁷ For a prostitute is a deep pit; And a wayward wife is a narrow well.

²⁸ Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.