To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.