19 My child, keep the vitalityof your prime of life safe and sound,and don’t give your strengthover to strangers.
20 After you have chosen a fertile plotout of every field,sow your own seed,being confident of yourexcellent descent.
21 Thus your offspring who surround youand who have confidencein their excellent descent,will become great.
22 A hired woman will be consideredthe same as spit,but a married woman will be considered a tower of death to those who associate too closely with her.
23 An ungodly woman will be bestowedon a lawless man as his portion,but a godly woman is grantedto the man who fears the Lord.
24 A shameless woman will always bein disgrace,but a dignified daughter will show modesty even with her husband.
25 An unruly wife will be thought ofas a dog,but the wife who feels shamewill fear the Lord.