²⁵ Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers.

¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.

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

²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

³¹ See not wine when it showeth itself red, When it giveth in the cup its colour, It goeth up and down through the upright.

³² Its latter end -- as a serpent it biteth, And as a basilisk it stingeth.

³³ Thine eyes see strange women, And thy heart speaketh perverse things.

⁶ All of us like sheep have wandered, Each to his own way we have turned, And Jehovah hath caused to meet on him, The punishment of us all.

²⁸ but I -- I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.