12. If you are wise, you are wise for your own benefit; if you mock, you alone will bear the consequences.”
13. The woman Folly is rowdy; she is gullible and knows nothing.
14. She sits by the doorway of her house,on a seat at the highest point of the city,
15. calling to those who pass by,who go straight ahead on their paths:
16. “Whoever is inexperienced, enter here! ”To the one who lacks sense, she says,
17. “Stolen water is sweet,and bread eaten secretly is tasty! ”
18. But he doesn’t know that the departed spirits are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.