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

¹⁷ Sweet to a man `is' the bread of falsehood, And afterwards is his mouth filled `with' gravel.

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.

²⁰ So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, `I have not done iniquity.'

⁶ And the woman seeth that the tree `is' good for food, and that it `is' pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make `one' wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;

²⁴ and he cometh in unto the high place, and taketh out of their hand, and layeth up in the house, and sendeth away the men, and they go.

²⁵ And he hath come in, and doth stand by his lord, and Elisha saith unto him, `Whence -- Gehazi?' and he saith, `Thy servant went not hither or thither.'

²⁶ And he saith unto him, `My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

²⁷ yea, the leprosy of Naaman doth cleave to thee, and to thy seed, -- to the age;' and he goeth out from before him -- leprous as snow.

¹⁸ Come, we are filled `with' loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

²⁰ A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

⁸ `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.

¹² for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

¹⁴ and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

¹⁵ afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.