Otherwise, outsiders may be filled with your strength, and your labors may be in a foreign house,
The man who loves wisdom rejoices his father. But whoever nurtures promiscuous women will lose his substance.
Do not give your substance to women, or your riches to overthrow kings.
and you may mourn in the end, when you will have consumed your flesh and your body. And so you may say:
Do not give your honor to foreigners, and your years to the cruel.
For the price of a prostitute is only one loaf. Yet the woman seizes the precious soul of a man.
nor will he agree to the pleadings of anyone, nor will he accept, as repayment, a multitude of gifts.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he did not know it. And grey hairs also have spread across him, and he is ignorant of it.
Yet after this son of yours returned, who has devoured his substance with loose women, you have killed the fatted calf for him.'