16. [Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you] to deliver you from the alien woman, from the outsider with her flattering words, [Prov. 2:11.]
17. Who forsakes the husband and guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18. For her house sinks down to death and her paths to the spirits [of the dead].
19. None who go to her return again, neither do they attain or regain the paths of life.