¹¹ You reveal the path of life to me;
in your presence is abundant joy;^(A)
at your right hand are eternal pleasures.^(B)

⁶ She doesn’t consider the path of life;
she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable.

⁵ She will keep you from a forbidden woman,
a wayward woman with her flattering talk.^(A)

²¹ She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.
²² He follows her impulsively
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding toward a trap^[a]
23 until an arrow pierces its^[b] liver,^(A)
like a bird darting into a snare^(B)—
he doesn’t know it will cost him his life.

²⁷ For a prostitute is a deep pit,^(A)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;
²⁸ indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber^(B)
and increases the number of unfaithful people.