2. That you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer [to temptation].
3. For the lips of a loose woman drip honey as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil; [Ezek. 20:30; Col. 2:8-10; II Pet. 2:14-17.]
4. But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged and devouring sword.
5. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold of Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead).
6. She loses sight of and walks not in the path of life; her ways wind about aimlessly, and you cannot know them.
7. Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, and depart not from the words of my mouth.