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 May your fountain^(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.^(B)

⁶ The Lord will call you back^(A)
    as if you were a wife deserted^(B) and distressed in spirit—
a wife who married young,^(C)
    only to be rejected,” says your God.