And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, {the youths: Heb. the sons}

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; {straightway: Heb. suddenly}

Marriage {is} honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason {of things}, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness {and} madness: {I applied...: Heb. I and mine heart compassed}

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, {there is} none so discreet and wise as thou {art}:

{There is} none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou {art} his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.

Whoso {is} simple, let him turn in hither: {as for} him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. {sins: Heb. sin}

Whoso {is} simple, let him turn in hither: and {as for} him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: {understanding: Heb. heart}

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

They were {as} fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour's wife.

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me {is} thine help. {is...: Heb. in thy help}

Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod {is} for the back of him that is void of understanding. {of understanding: Heb. of heart}

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, {the youths: Heb. the sons}

Whoso {is} simple, let him turn in hither: {as for} him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth {his} face. {disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his face in secret}

O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me {is} thine help. {is...: Heb. in thy help}

He that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread: but he that followeth vain {persons is} void of understanding.

Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: far be it from God, {that he should do} wickedness; and {from} the Almighty, {that he should commit} iniquity. {men...: Heb. men of heart}

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

Neither shalt thou commit adultery.

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth {it} not.

{There is} none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me but thee, because thou {art} his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?

But he refused, and said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what {is} with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;

Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding;