Give thou not thine honour to aliens, and thy years to the cruel;
and I said, Whether Solomon, the king of Israel, sinned not in such things? And certainly in many folks there was no king like him, and he was loved of his God, and God setted [or set] him king upon all Israel, and alien women brought him to sin.
Give thou not thy chattel [or thy substance] to women, and thy riches to do away kings.
lest peradventure strangers be filled with thy strengths, and lest thy travails be in an alien’s house;
Make far thy way from her, and nigh thou not to the doors of her house.
For the price of a whore is scarcely a gobbet of bread; but such a woman taketh the precious soul of a man.