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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 counselor⁵ 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.