Proverbs 9:14-18d

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 want prudence, saying,

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

¹⁸But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell.

^18aBut hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix thine eye upon her:

^18bfor thus shalt thou go through strange water;

^18cbut do thou abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain,

^18dthat thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.