Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: