²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

³ A man loving wisdom rejoiceth his father, And a friend of harlots destroyeth wealth.

¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled `with' thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

³⁶ and it hath been, every one who is left in thy house doth come in to bow himself to him, for a wage of silver, and a cake of bread, and hath said, Admit me, I pray thee, unto one of the priest's offices, to eat a morsel of bread.'

³⁰ but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

¹⁸ And thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo to those sowing pillows for all joints of the arm, And to those making the kerchiefs For the head of every stature -- to hunt souls, The souls do ye hunt of My people? And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?

⁸ Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen a lie, Therefore, lo, I `am' against you, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

⁸ Men of scorning ensnare a city, And the wise turn back anger.

²³ Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.

¹⁴ that she calleth for the men of her house, and speaketh to them, saying, `See, he hath brought in to us a man, a Hebrew, to play with us; he hath come in unto me, to lie with me, and I call with a loud voice,