³ Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey
and her words are^[a] smoother than oil,

²⁰ Why, my son, would you lose yourself
with a forbidden woman
or embrace a wayward woman?^(A)

²⁴ They will protect you from an evil woman,^[a]
from the flattering tongue of a wayward woman.^(A)

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.

²⁷ For a prostitute is a deep pit,^(A)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;