⁹ “If my heart has been enticed^(A) by a woman,^(B)
    or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

²⁶ I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,^(A)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.^(B)

⁴ They are all adulterers,^(A)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.

⁸ They are well-fed, lusty stallions,
    each neighing for another man’s wife.^(A)

¹⁴ The mouth of an adulterous woman is a deep pit;^(A)
    a man who is under the Lord’s wrath falls into it.^(B)

²⁵ Do not lust in your heart after her beauty
    or let her captivate you with her eyes.

¹⁶ Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,^(A)
    from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
¹⁷ who has left the partner of her youth
    and ignored the covenant she made before God.^[a](B)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
    and her paths to the spirits of the dead.^(C)
19 None who go to her return
    or attain the paths of life.^(D)