O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
Let not thine heart decline to her (symbolic of false ways) ways, go not astray in her paths.
He (wicked person) winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
For the lips of a strange woman (symbolic of wrong teachings) drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
He (God) keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.
My son, walk not thou in the way with them (sinners); refrain thy foot from their path:
She (virtuous woman, symbolic of the Church) will do him (symbolic of Jesus Christ) good and not evil all the days of her life.
Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.