And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
A man who is a lover of wisdom is a joy to his father: but he who goes in the company of loose women is a waster of wealth.
Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.
And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.
But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.