Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger; And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, A ka mea, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof (Whakatauki…

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel (Whakatauki 5:8-9) Don’t become intimate with a strange woman (or man). Don’t come…

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth (Whakatauki 5:7) I roto i ngā Proverbs 5:7, The Father advises us strongly to listen to Him and not depart from the words of His mouth. His…

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them (Whakatauki 5:6) The devil shall always try to keep you away from the path of life; the path to eternal life. Koinei te take…

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell (Whakatauki 5:5) The father warns his son for the strange woman, because she can be deadly. Why can she be ‘deadly’? Because she operates out of Hades, a…