If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or[ if] I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

“我若受迷惑，向妇人起淫念，在邻舍的门外蹲伏，

“我心若因妇人受迷惑，在邻舍的门外等候，

“我心若因妇人受迷惑，在邻舍的门外等候，

我的心若迷恋女人，在邻居的门口窥探，

我的心若被女人迷惑，在别人的门口埋伏，

我若受迷惑，向婦人起淫念，在鄰舍的門外蹲伏，

「我心若因婦人受迷惑，在鄰舍的門外等候，

「我心若因婦人受迷惑，在鄰舍的門外等候，

我的心若迷戀女人，在鄰居的門口窺探，

我的心若被女人迷惑，在別人的門口埋伏，

『我的心若因人的妻子而受迷惑，而在鄰舍門外蹲伏着，

如我心為婦女所惑、窺伺鄰舍之門、

如我為婦女所惑、或瞷人不在而誘其妻、

如我心為婦女所惑、如我心為婦女所惑或作若我心迷惑向婦女起淫念在比鄰之門外窺伺、

“ If my heart has been enticed by a woman, or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

“ Suppose my heart has been tempted by a woman. Or suppose I’ve prowled around my neighbor’s home.

“ If my heart has been enticed toward a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

“ If my heart has been seduced by a woman, or if I have lusted for my neighbor’s wife,

If my heart has gone astray over a woman or I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

“ If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

“ If my heart has been enticed by a woman, Or if I have lurked at my neighbor’s door,

If my heart hath been enticed unto a woman, And I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door;

If my heart has been seduced by my neighbor’s wife or I have lurked at his door,

If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor’s door,

“ If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have laid wait at my neighbor’s door,

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength[ lieth], and by what[ means] we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred[ pieces] of silver.

And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart[ is] snares and nets,[ and] her hands[ as] bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

For it came to pass, when Solomon was old,[ that] his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as[ was] the heart of David his father.

Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

They were[ as] fed horses in the morning: every one neighed after his neighbour’s wife.

The mouth of strange women[ is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

They[ are] all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker,[ who] ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth[ his] face.In the dark they dig through houses,[ which] they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

To deliver thee from the strange woman,[ even] from the stranger[ which] flattereth with her words;Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

For the lips of a strange woman drop[ as] an honeycomb, and her mouth[ is] smoother than oil:But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable,[ that] thou canst not know[ them].Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours[ be] in the house of a stranger;And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad,[ and] rivers of waters in the streets.Let them be only thine own, and not strangers’ with thee.Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.[ 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.And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?For the ways of man[ are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.