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¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.² Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.³ Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the table of thine heart.⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,⁸ Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.¹⁰ And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.¹¹ She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.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 us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.¹⁹ For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:²⁰ He hath taken a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.²² He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as fetters to the correction of the fool;²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²⁴ Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.²⁵ Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.²⁶ For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host.²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.