- 1. ¶ MY son, keep my words and hide my commandments within you.
- 2. Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
- 3. Bind them about your neck; write them upon the tablets of your heart.
- 4. Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and to understanding, You are my counselor
- 5. That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger that flatters with her words.
- 6. ¶ For from the window of her house and from the balcony she looked out,
- 7. And she beheld young men, she spied among the youths, and those who lacked understanding,
- 8. Passing through the street near the corner of her house,
- 9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night;
- 10. And, behold, there came out a woman with the attire of a harlot to meet one of them, a woman who fluttered the hearts of young men.
- 11. She is rebellious and gluttonous; her feet do not abide in her house;
- 12. But she roams around outside, now in the streets, and now lying in wait at the corners.
- 13. So she caught him and kissed him, and, with an impudent face, said to him,
- 14. This day I have paid my vows, I have peace offerings with me;
- 15. Therefore I came out to meet you, for I have been waiting to see you, and now I have found you.
- 16. I have made my bed upon a carpet; I have covered it with fine linen of Egypt.
- 17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- 18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us embrace each other with passion.
- 19. For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:
- 20. He has taken a bag of money with him, and it will be a long time before he comes home.
- 21. With much fair speech she misled him, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
- 22. He went after her as a little child, as an ox that goes to the slaughter, and as a dog to be muzzled;
- 23. And as a stag whose liver is pierced with an arrow, as a bird hastens to the snare, and does not know that he goes to his death.
- 24. ¶ Now therefore, O my children, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
- 25. Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not go astray in her paths.
- 26. For she has cast down many wounded; yea, many mighty men have been slain by her.
- 27. The ways to her house are the ways to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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