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)

¹² now in the street, now in the squares,
    at every corner she lurks.)^(A)

     ¹¹ to prostitution;^(A)
old wine^(B) and new wine
    take away their understanding.^(C)

² “Look up to the barren heights^(A) and see.
    Is there any place where you have not been ravished?
By the roadside^(B) you sat waiting for lovers,
    sat like a nomad in the desert.
You have defiled the land^(C)
    with your prostitution^(D) and wickedness.

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)

¹⁸ But little do they know that the dead are there,
    that her guests are deep in the realm of the dead.^(A)