Take thou away the cloth of him that was a borrow of another man; and for strangers take thou away a wed from him.
He that maketh faith, that is, obligation, for a stranger, shall be tormented with evil; but he that escheweth snares, shall be secure.
That thou be delivered from an alien woman, and from a strange woman, that maketh soft her words;
Gold, and the multitude of gems, and a precious vessel, be the lips of knowing.
The bread of a leasing, that is, gotten by a leasing, is sweet to a man; and afterward his mouth shall be filled with reckoning [or with little pebble stones].
For a whore is a deep ditch, and an alien woman, is a strait pit.
Take thou away his cloth, that promised for a stranger; and take thou away a wed from him for an alien man.
Give thou not attention to the falseness of a woman; for the lips of an whore be an honeycomb dropping, and her throat is clearer than oil;
My son, if thou hast promised for thy friend, thou hast fastened thine hand at a stranger.
And lo! a woman, made ready with ornament of an whore to deceive souls, meeteth him,
That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet.