33 And she would look upon him with large eyes; and she would say unto him, Verily, thou art a man; and thy strength, it terrifieth me. And if he strove for to comfort her because she feared his strength, then was he lost indeed.
34 ¶ Yea, unless he had taken unto himself a wife before, there was no help in him. For the wiles of the damsels, they worked in devious ways; but the end of the ways, assuredly, it was for ever the same.
CHAPTER XI.
1 Concerning one that abhorred strange tongues. 3 He meeteth with a damsel. 14 And falleth unto her. 15 Concerning the writing on the board. 24 A certain man disturbeth his companions. 29 He is delivered from tribulation. 33 Whereby another suffereth in his stead.
Concerning sundry happenings that befell the fighters of En when they went out with the host.
2 Now there was a certain man that went unto the war. And when he was arrived nigh unto the camp, he was commanded to seek a certain habitation and to sojourn there.
3 ¶ And on the morrow after he was come into that house, he beheld a damsel. And, lo, she was fair as the blossom of the pomegranate and graceful as a roe that skippeth upon the mountains.
4 And her neck, it was like unto a tower that is of ivory, and there was red upon her lips; also, she had doves' eyes and full of softness.
5 Now in his youth he had given him over unto idleness, heeding not instruction and scorning all strange speech. But the time of his repentance, it was at hand, because he had no words for to tell her all that which was in his heart.