3 What an immoral woman says to you may be as sweet as honey,

and sound smoother than olive oil feels on your skin,

4 but the result of being with her will be bitter like gall

and injure you as badly, like being cut with a sharp two-edged sword.

5 If you go where she goes [MTY], you will go down to where the dead people are.

Her steps will lead you straight to the grave.

6 She is not concerned about the roads that lead to a long life.

She walks down a crooked path,

and she does not realize that she is on the wrong road.

7 So now, my sons, listen to me.

◄Never turn aside from/always remember► [LIT] what I am about to tell you.

8 Run away from immoral women!

Do not go near the doors of their houses!

9 If you enter the home of one of them, you will lose your ◄self-respect/good reputation►

and that woman’s husband will not act mercifully toward you;

he will kill you and take everything that you have acquired during your life!