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¹ My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.² Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.³ Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman,⁵ so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words.

⁶ For I looked through my lattice, at the window of my house,⁷ and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,⁸ passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,⁹ in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night.¹⁰ And, behold, a woman came to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart;¹¹ she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not rest in her own house.¹² At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;¹³ and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows;¹⁵ so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.¹⁶ I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.¹⁷ I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses.¹⁹ For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away.²⁰ He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house.²¹ With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.²² He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool,²³ until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

²⁴ Now, then, listen to me, O sons, and attend to the words of my mouth:²⁵ Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.²⁶ For many are the wounded she has caused to fall; and plentiful all her slain ones.²⁷ The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the rooms of death.