but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
That forsaketh the friend of her youth, And forgetteth the covenant of her God:
For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
None that go unto her return again, Neither do they attain unto the paths of life:
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, And keep the paths of the righteous.
For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.
For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand (of the hunter), And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures:
Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
Behold, this have I found, saith the Preacher, (laying) one thing to another, to find out the account;