1MY SON, keep my words; lay up within you my commandments [for use when needed] {and} treasure them.
2Keep my commandments and live, and keep my law {and} teaching as the apple (the pupil) of your eye.
3Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to skillful {and} godly Wisdom, You are my sister, and regard understanding {or} insight as your intimate friend--
5That they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adventuress who flatters with {and} makes smooth her words.
6For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice.
7And among the simple (empty-headed and emptyhearted) ones, I perceived among the youths a young man void of good sense,
8Sauntering through the street near the [loose woman's] corner; and he went the way to her house
9In the twilight, in the evening; night black and dense was falling [over the young man's life].
10And behold, there met him a woman, dressed as a harlot and sly {and} cunning of heart.
11She is turbulent {and} willful; her feet stay not in her house;
12Now in the streets, now in the marketplaces, she sets her ambush at every corner.
13So she caught him and kissed him and with impudent face she said to him,
14Sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; this day I paid my vows.
15So I came forth to meet you [that you might share with me the feast from my offering]; diligently I sought your face, and I have found you.
16I have spread my couch with rugs {and} cushions of tapestry, with striped sheets of fine linen of Egypt.
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us console {and} delight ourselves with love.
19For the man is not at home; he is gone on a long journey;
20He has taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed [at the full moon].
21With much justifying {and} enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] {and} forces him along.
22Suddenly he [yields and] follows her reluctantly like an ox moving to the slaughter, like one in fetters going to the correction [to be given] to a fool {or} {like a dog enticed by food to the muzzle}
23Till a dart [of passion] pierces {and} inflames his vitals; then like a bird fluttering straight into the net [he hastens], not knowing that it will cost him his life.
24Listen to me now therefore, O you sons, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25Let not your heart incline toward her ways, do not stray into her paths.
26For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, all her slain are a mighty host.
27Her house is the way to Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead), going down to the chambers of death.
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