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¹ My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with you.² Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of your eye.³ Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister; And call understanding [your] kinswoman:⁵ That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;⁷ And 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; And 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 And, look, there met him a woman With the attire of a prostitute, and wily of heart.¹¹ She is clamorous and willful; Her feet do not abide in her house:¹² Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lies in wait at every corner.¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] 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 forth to meet you, Diligently to 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 us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.¹⁹ For the man is not 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 her much fair speech she causes him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.²² He goes after her right away, As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;²³ Until an arrow strikes through his liver; As a bird hurries to the snare, And does not know that it is for his life.

²⁴ Now therefore, [my] sons, listen to me, And attend to the words of my mouth.²⁵ Don't let your heart decline to her ways; Don't go astray in her paths.²⁶ For she has cast down many wounded: Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.