- 1. My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
- 2. Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
- 3. Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
- 4. Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou `art'.' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'
- 5. To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
- 6. For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
- 7. And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
- 8. Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way `to' her house he doth step,
- 9. In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
- 10. And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,
- 11. Noisy she `is', and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
- 12. Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
- 13. And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,
- 14. `Sacrifices of peace-offerings `are' by me, To-day I have completed my vows.
- 15. Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.
- 16. `With' ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.
- 17. I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- 18. Come, we are filled `with' loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
- 19. For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.
- 20. A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'
- 21. She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
- 22. He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
- 23. Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it `is' for its life.
- 24. And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
- 25. Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,
- 26. For many `are' the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty `are' all her slain ones.
- 27. The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
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