lest you lose your honor to others
    and your dignity[a] to one who is cruel,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 5:9 Or years

22 All at once he followed her
    like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer[a] stepping into a noose[b](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:22 Syriac (see also Septuagint); Hebrew fool
  2. Proverbs 7:22 The meaning of the Hebrew for this line is uncertain.

27 Her house is a highway to the grave,
    leading down to the chambers of death.(A)

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     11 to prostitution;(A)
old wine(B) and new wine
    take away their understanding.(C)

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