lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless,
Did not King Solomon of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings.
and strangers take their fill of your wealth, and your labors go to the house of an alien,
Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house,
for a prostitute’s fee is only a loaf of bread, but the wife of another stalks a man’s precious life.