Fragment 1
1 [From her mouth] she brings out emptiness, and in […] worthlessness. She seeks errors always, [and with her tongue] she sharpens her words. [With mockery] 2 and scorn she speaks smoothly, to deride altogether with lips of iniquity. Her heart sets up recklessness, and her inward parts are snares [of the pit. Her palms] 3 are defiled with iniquity; her hands grasp the pit. Her feet go down to do wickedness and to walk in guilt […] 4 foundations of darkness; a multitude of transgressions is in her skirts. … the gloom of night, and her clothing […] 5 Her coverings are the deep darkness of twilight, and her ornaments are plagues of the pit. Her couches, her beds, are beds of Sheol […] 6 depths of the pit. Her lodgings are couches of darkness, and in the dead of night are her dominions. From the foundations of deep darkness 7 she pitches her dwelling, and she resides in the tents of silence, in the midst of everlasting burnings. She has no inheritance among all 8 the lights of brightness. She is the beginning of all the ways of iniquity. Woe, disaster to all who inherit her, and ruin to all 9 who hold on to her. For her ways are ways of death, and her paths are tracks of sin. Her trails lead astray 10 into iniquity, and her pathways are the guilt of transgression. Her gates are gates of death; at the entrance of her house she strides. To Sheol 11 all [who go in to her shall not] return, and all who inherit her will go down to the pit. She lies in wait in hidden places … […] 12 all […] In the city squares she veils herself, and in the gates of towns she takes her stand, and there is no one to stop her 13 from … always. Her eyes dart here and there, and she lifts her eyelids wantonly to look at a 14 righteous man and overtake him, and at a mighty man and make him stumble; to turn the upright from the way, and the righteous chosen ones 15 from keeping the commandment; to make fools of those who are steadfast … with wantonness, and to make those who walk uprightly change the statute; to make 16 the humble rebel against God, and to turn their steps from the ways of righteousness; to bring insolence into their heart, so that they do not tread 17 in the paths of uprightness; to lead a person astray into the ways of the pit, and to seduce with smooth words [all] the sons of man.
Fragment 2
1 […] your soul … […] 2 […] in you, and in the instruction […] 3 […] … commit to him, and he […] 4 [… with] a crushed heart plead with him […] 5 […] and haughtiness of eyes, an uncircumcised heart […] 6 […] … haughtiness of heart, and also anger … […]
Fragment 3
1 […] you desire … […] 2 […] always, be pure toward him … […] 3 […] spread out your palms to him in … […] 4 […] … from you iniquity … […] 5 […] with pupils of wantonness and … […]
Fragment 4
1 […] … […] 2 […] … depths of […] 3 […] … like water he will fill and … […] 4 […] son of man, and his spirit … […] 5 […] not in the guilt of unfaithfulness […]
Fragment 5
1 […] … […] 2 […] her … […] 3 […] … do not … […] 4 […] … in the ear and … […] 5 [… judgment] and statute […]
Fragment 6
1 […] in her squares […] 2 […] do not enter … […] 3 […] … […]
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