Son, if thou be wise for thyself, thou shalt also be wise for thy neighbours; and if thou shouldest prove wicked, thou alone wilt bear the evil.(12a)He that stays himself upon falsehoods, attempts to rule the winds, and the same will pursue birds in their fight:(12b)for he has forsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and he has caused the axles of his own husbandry to go astray;(12c)and he goes through a dry desert, and a land appointed to drought, and he gathers barrenness with his hands.
Αλλ' αυτος αγνοει οτι εκει ειναι οι νεκροι, και εις τα βαθη του αδου οι κεκλημενοι αυτης.
English
But he knows that mighty men die by her, and he falls in with a snare of hell.(18a)But hasten away, delay not in the place, neither fix thine eye upon her:(18b)for thus shalt thou go through strange water;(18c)but do thou abstain from strange water, and drink not of a strange fountain,(18d)that thou mayest live long, and years of life may be added to thee.