²⁰ For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

²⁴ To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

⁵ That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

¹ Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

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

¹⁷ Who forsakes the friend of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God:

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:

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

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.

³³ Your eyes will see strange things, And your mind will imagine confusing things.