7. Now listen to me, my children, and never forget what I am saying.
8. Keep away from such a woman! Don't even go near her door!
9. If you do, others will gain the respect that you once had, and you will die young at the hands of merciless people.
10. Yes, strangers will take all your wealth, and what you have worked for will belong to someone else.
11. You will lie groaning on your deathbed, your flesh and muscles being eaten away,
12. and you will say, “Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?
13. I wouldn't listen to my teachers. I paid no attention to them.
14. And suddenly I found myself publicly disgraced.”
15. Be faithful to your own wife and give your love to her alone.
16. Children that you have by other women will do you no good.
17. Your children should grow up to help you, not strangers.
18. So be happy with your wife and find your joy with the woman you married —
19. pretty and graceful as a deer. Let her charms keep you happy; let her surround you with her love.
20. Why should you give your love to another woman, my son? Why should you prefer the charms of another man's wife?
21. The Lord sees everything you do. Wherever you go, he is watching.
22. The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.