My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
1Me ba, tie me nyansa, na brɛ w'aso ase ma me nteaseɛ:Under pastoral review
2Sɛdeɛ wobɛhwɛ adwene so, na w'anofafa akora nimdeɛ.Under pastoral review
3Ɛfiri sɛ ɔbaa hɔhoɔ anofafa sosɔ sɛ ɛwokyɛm, na n'anom yɛ toromtorom sene ngo:Under pastoral review
4Nanso n'awieeɛ yɛ nwononwono sɛ bɔnwoma, ano yɛ nnam sɛ afena a ɛwɔ ano mmienu.Under pastoral review
5Ne nan siane kɔ owuo mu; n'anammɔn sɔ damena mu.Under pastoral review
6Sɛdeɛ worensusu nkwa kwan ho, n'akwan hinhim, na worentumi nhunu.Under pastoral review
7Enti afei montie me, mo mma, na monntwe mo ho mfiri m'anom nsɛm ho.Under pastoral review
8Ma wo kwan nkɔ akyiri firi ne ho, na mmɛn ne fie ɛpono ano:Under pastoral review
9Sɛdeɛ worennfa w'animuonyam mma afoforɔ, ne wo mfeɛ mma otirimuɔdenfoɔ:Under pastoral review
10Sɛdeɛ ahɔhoɔ remmee wo ahonyadeɛ; na w'adwuma ba ɔhɔhoɔ fie.Under pastoral review
11Na woatwa adwo awieeɛ, ɛberɛ a wo honam ne wo nipadua asɛe,Under pastoral review
12Na woaka sɛ, Ɛyɛɛ dɛn na metan nkyerɛkyerɛ, na m'akoma buu animka animtiaa;Under pastoral review
13Na mentiee me kyerɛkyerɛfoɔ nne, na membrɛɛ m'aso ase amma wɔn a wɔkyerɛkyerɛɛ me!Under pastoral review
14Ɛkaa kakra na maka bɔne nyinaa mu wɔ asafo ne nhyiamu mfimfini.Under pastoral review
15Nom nsuo firi w'ankasa abura mu, ne nsuo a ɛtene firi w'ankasa subura mu.Under pastoral review
16Ma w'asubura nhwete mmra abɔnten, ne nsuo nsubɔntene wɔ mmɔntene so.Under pastoral review
17Ma ɛnyɛ wo nko ara dea, na ɛnyɛ ahɔhoɔ dea a wɔka wo ho.Under pastoral review
18Nhyira nka w'asubura: na wo ne wo mmabaawaberɛ yere nni ahurusie.Under pastoral review
19Ma ɔnyɛ sɛ ɔforote ɔdɔfoɔ ne ɔwansane a ɔyɛ fɛ; ma ne nufu mmee wo ɛberɛ nyinaa; na ne dɔ mfa wo daa.Under pastoral review
20Na adɛn nti na wo, me ba, ɔbaa hɔhoɔ dɔ bɛfa wo, na woayɛ ɔhɔhoɔ kokom atuu?Under pastoral review
21Ɛfiri sɛ onipa akwan wɔ AWURADE ani so, na ɔsusu n'anammɔn nyinaa ho.Under pastoral review
22N'ankasa amumuyɛ bɛkyere ɔdebɔneyɛni no, na ne bɔne nhoma bɛkyekyere no.Under pastoral review
23Ɔbɛwu ɛsiane nkyerɛkyerɛ a ɔnni enti; na ne nkwaseasɛm kɛseɛ mu na ɔbɛyera.Under pastoral review