Proverbs [Sayings] 2:16-19

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· of her God:

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.

¹⁹None who go to her teshuvah ·completely return· again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: