| 7:1 |
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. |
| 7:2 |
Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. |
| 7:3 |
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. |
| 7:4 |
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, |
| 7:5 |
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. |
| 7:6 |
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. |
| 7:7 |
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, |
| 7:8 |
passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, |
| 7:9 |
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. |
| 7:10 |
Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. |
| 7:11 |
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. |
| 7:12 |
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. |
| 7:13 |
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: |
| 7:14 |
"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows. |
| 7:15 |
Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. |
| 7:16 |
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. |
| 7:17 |
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| 7:18 |
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. |
| 7:19 |
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. |
| 7:20 |
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon." |
| 7:21 |
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. |
| 7:22 |
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. |
| 7:23 |
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. |
| 7:24 |
Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. |
| 7:25 |
Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, |
| 7:26 |
for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. |
| 7:27 |
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. |
