Pro7:1 My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;
Pro7:2 keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
Pro7:3 bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
Pro7:4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
Pro7:5 that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
Pro7:6 For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
Pro7:7 and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
Pro7:8 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
Pro7:9 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
Pro7:10 Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.
Pro7:11 She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
Pro7:12 now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.
Pro7:13 She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
Pro7:14 "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
Pro7:15 so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!
Pro7:16 I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
Pro7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Pro7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
Pro7:19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Pro7:20 He took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon."
Pro7:21 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
Pro7:22 Right away he follows her, and goes like an ox to the slaughter, or bounds like a stag toward the trap
Pro7:23 until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.
Pro7:24 And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
Pro7:25 Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
Pro7:26 for many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.
Pro7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.