and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular.

I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?"

Although she asked Joseph day after day, he would not go to bed with her.

The king said to Joseph, "God has shown you all this, so it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.

But I devoted myself to knowledge and study; I was determined to find wisdom and the answers to my questions, and to learn how wicked and foolish stupidity is.

I found something more bitter than death---the woman who is like a trap. The love she offers you will catch you like a net, and her arms around you will hold you like a chain. A man who pleases God can get away, but she will catch the sinner.

They were like well-fed stallions wild with desire, each lusting for his neighbor's wife.

Pay attention, you foolish and stupid people, who have eyes, but cannot see, and have ears, but cannot hear.

They say they are wise, but they are fools;

And so God has given those people over to do the filthy things their hearts desire, and they do shameful things with each other.

The LORD says, "Wine, both old and new, is robbing my people of their senses!

They ask for revelations from a piece of wood! A stick tells them what they want to know! They have left me. Like a woman who becomes a prostitute, they have given themselves to other gods.

If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.

No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

They die because they have no self-control. Their utter stupidity will send them to their graves.

Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap

where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger.

Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

"Come in, ignorant people!" To the foolish she says,

Her victims do not know that the people die who go to her house, that those who have already entered are now deep in the world of the dead.

Give up all the evil you have been doing, and get yourselves new minds and hearts. Why do you Israelites want to die?

"I will destroy you, people of Israel! Then who can help you?

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.