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

^{17 Ref} Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:

^{18 Ref} For her house leads down to death, Her paths to the dead.

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