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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 teaching as the apple of thine eye.³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy 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 alien woman that maketh smooth her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;⁷ And I beheld among the thoughtless 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 a harlot, and wily of heart.¹¹ She is riotous and rebellious, 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 were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek thy face, and I have found thee.¹⁶ I have decked my couch with coverlets, 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 my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;²⁰ He hath taken the 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 blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.²² He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare--

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