Wisdom and the Family

¹⁶ So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman,
    from the adulteress with her smooth words,
¹⁷ who forsakes the companion of her youth
    and forgets the covenant of her God;
¹⁸ for her house sinks down to death,
    and her paths to the departed;
¹⁹ none who go to her come back,
    nor do they regain the paths of life.