⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”^(A)
and call understanding your relative.
⁵ She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a stranger with her flattering talk.^(B)

²¹ She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering^[a] talk.

²⁸ A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
and a flattering mouth causes ruin.