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“Whoever is naive or inexperienced, let him turn in here!”
And to him who lacks understanding (common sense), she says,
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“Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden];
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”(A)
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But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there,
And that her guests are [already] in the depths of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).

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