and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the children a young man lacking heart,

There is no one greater in this house than I, nor has he kept back anything from me but you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great evil, and sin against God?

And it came to pass, as she spoke to Joseph day after day, that he did not give heed to her, to lie with her or to be with her.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.

I set my 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;

and I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands like fetters. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be captured by her.

They were like lusty, well-fed stallions in the morning; every one neighing after his neighbor's wife.

Now hear this, O foolish people, without understanding; who have eyes and see not; who have ears and hear not.

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

Therefore God also gives them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

Harlotry and wine and new wine snatch away the heart.

My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their magic wand expounds to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have committed adultery against their God.

For her house leads down to death, and her tracks to the spirits of the dead.

No one going in to her returns, nor do they attain unto the ways of life.

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

He shall die without instruction, and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

In an instant he goes after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool goes to correction in fetters;

till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare; and does not realize that it is for his soul.

But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul; all who hate me love death.

Whoever is simple, let him turn in here; and to the one lacking heart, she says to him:

But he does not know that the spirits of the dead are there; the ones she summons are in the depths of Sheol.

Cast away from you all the transgressions by which you have transgressed, and prepare for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

O Israel, you are destroyed, but your help is in Me.

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled; but prostitutes and adulterers God will judge.