lest you give your strength to others and your years to one who is cruel;
Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin about these things? Yet among many nations there was never any king like him. Yes, he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, the foreign women caused even him to sin.
do not give your vigor to women, or your ways to what ruins kings.
lest strangers feast on your strength, your labors go to a foreigner’s house.
Keep your path far from her and do not go near the door of her house—
For on account of a prostitute one is reduced to a loaf of bread; a man’s wife preys on your precious life.