Proverbs 9:12-17

¹²Son, if you be wise for yourself, you shall also be wise for your neighbours; and if you should prove wicked, you alone will bear the evil. He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight: for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray; and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.

¹³A foolish and bold woman, who knows not modesty, comes to lack a morsel.

¹⁴She sits at the doors of her house, on a seat openly in the streets,

¹⁵calling to passers by, and to those that are going right on their ways;

¹⁶saying, Whoso is most senseless of you, let him turn aside to me; and I exhort those that lack prudence, saying,

¹⁷Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.