Proverbs

¹²If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scorn, you alone will bear it and pay the penalty. ¹³The foolish woman is noisy; she is simple and open to all forms of evil, she [willfully and recklessly] knows nothing whatever [of eternal value]. ¹⁴For she sits at the door of her house or on a seat in the conspicuous places of the town, ¹⁵Calling to those who pass by, who go uprightly on their way: ¹⁶Whoever is simple (wavering and easily led astray), let him turn in here! And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, ¹⁷Stolen waters (pleasures) are sweet [because they are forbidden]; and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. [Prov. 20:17.] ¹⁸But he knows not that the shades of the dead are there [specters haunting the scene of past transgressions], and that her invited guests are [already sunk] in the depths of Sheol (the lower world, Hades, the place of the dead).