³² He who committeth adultery `with' a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

⁴ honourable `is' the marriage in all, and the bed undefiled, and whoremongers and adulterers God shall judge.

²² He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

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.

¹⁸ For her house hath inclined unto death, And unto Rephaim her paths.

¹⁹ None going in unto her turn back, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

¹⁴ `Thou dost not commit adultery.

³⁹ and Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `After God's causing thee to know all this, there is none intelligent and wise as thou;

⁹ none is greater in this house than I, and he hath not withheld from me anything, except thee, because thou `art' his wife; and how shall I do this great evil? -- then have I sinned against God.'

¹⁰ And it cometh to pass at her speaking unto Joseph day `by' day, that he hath not hearkened unto her, to lie near her, to be with her;

²² professing to be wise, they were made fools,

²³ and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of fowls, and of quadrupeds, and of reptiles.

²⁴ Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

⁹ And I consume them there as a lioness, A beast of the field doth rend them.

¹¹ Whoredom, and wine, and new wine, take the heart,

¹² My people at its staff asketh and its rod declareth to it, For a spirit of whoredoms hath caused to err, And they go a-whoring from under their God.

³¹ Cast from off you all your transgressions, By which ye have transgressed, And make to you a new heart, and a new spirit, And why do ye die, O house of Israel?

²¹ Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.

⁸ Fed horses -- they have been early risers, Each to the wife of his neighbour they neigh.

²⁵ I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

²⁶ And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.

¹⁶ `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

¹⁷ `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'

¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim `are' there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

⁴ `Who `is' simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

³⁶ And whoso is missing me, is wronging his soul, All hating me have loved death!

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!