O son take heed to my wisdom and set aside your ear to my words
That you should guard good insight And perception of my lips I give charge to you Give no heed to a vile woman
For honey drops from the lips of a harlot woman which for a time fattens your throat
Afterwards however you shall find more bitter than bile and being more sharpened rather than a double-edged sword
For the feet of folly lead down unto Hades the ones dealing with her and her tracks are not established
The ways for of life she does not come by but her tracks are slippery and not well-known
Now then O son hear me and you should not do void works of my words
Make your way far from her You should not approach to doors of her houses
That you should not let your means of life go to others and your livelihood to the unmerciful
That strangers should not be filled with your strength and your toils should enter into houses of strangers
And you shall be repenting at last when ever the flesh wears away from your body
And you shall say O how I detested instruction and my heart turned aside from reproofs
I did not hear the voice of one correcting me and teaching me nor did I set aside my ear
By little I came unto every evil in the midst of the assembly and congregation
O son drink waters from your own receptacles and from your own wells the flow
Let the waters overflow to you from out of your own spring and into your own squares let your waters go along
Let it be to you alone existing and let not a stranger partake with you
The spring of your water let it be to you in particular and be glad with the wife of your youth
Let your hind of friendship and your filly of favors consort with you The and in particular let her be esteemed by you and be with you at all time For in this friendship you will be accommodated a great deal
Be not much with the strange woman nor hold in embraces the one not your own
For the ways of a man are before the eyes of God and he watches all his tracks
Unlawful deeds ensnare a man and each one is grasped by chains of his own sins
This man comes to an end with the uninstructed and from the abundance of his own sustenance was cast forth and perished through folly