4. But her end is marah (bitter) as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged cherev.
5. Her raglayim go down to mavet; her steps lead to Sheol.
6. Lest thou shouldest compare [hers] to the orach chayyim, her ma'agalot (paths) are crooked, that thou canst not know them.
7. Hear me now therefore, O ye banim, and turn not from the words of my peh (mouth).
8. Remove thy derech far from her, and come not near the petach (doorway) of her bais;
9. Lest thou give thine hod (strength) unto others, and thy shanim unto the cruel one;
10. Lest zarim (strangers) be filled with thy koach; and thy toilings be in the bais nochri;
11. And thou mourn at the acharit (last, latter end, future), when thy basar and thy body are consumed,
12. And say, How have I hated musar, and my lev spurned tokhakhat (reproof);
13. And have not obeyed the voice of my morim (teachers), nor inclined mine ear to the ones who were my melamed!
14. I was at the brink of all rah (evil, ruin) in the midst of the kahal (congregation) and edah (assembly).