lest you lose your honor to others and your dignity to one who is cruel,
Was it not because of marriages like these that Solomon king of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel, but even he was led into sin by foreign women.
Do not spend your strength on women, your vigor on those who ruin kings.
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich the house of another.
Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house,
For a prostitute can be had for a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife preys on your very life.