- 1. My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- 2. Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- 3. Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
- 4. Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
- 5. that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
- 6. For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
- 7. I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
- 8. passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
- 9. in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
- 10. Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
- 11. She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
- 12. Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
- 13. So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
- 14. "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
- 15. Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
- 16. I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
- 17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- 18. Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
- 19. For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
- 20. He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
- 21. With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
- 22. He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
- 23. Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
- 24. Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
- 25. Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,
- 26. for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
- 27. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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