17. If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance.
18. For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him.
19. She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul.
20. Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy,
21. And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice.
22. But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy.
23. Son, observe the time, and fly from evil.