3 For as of fine honey drop the lips of an adulterous woman, and smoother than oil is her palate;4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, it is sharp as a twoedged sword.5 Her feet go down to death, her steps take firm hold on the nether world:6 So that she cannot balance the path of life; her tracks are unsteady, and she knoweth it not.7 And now, O ye children, hearken unto me, and depart not from the sayings of my mouth.8 Remove far from her thy way, and come not nigh to the door of her house;9 That thou mayest not give up unto others thy vigor, and thy years unto the cruel;