[1]
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
[2]
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
[3]
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
[4]
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
[5]
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
[6]
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
[7]
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, the youths: Heb. the sons
[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 dark night: in the evening: Heb. in the evening of days
[10]
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
[11]
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
[12]
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
[13]
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, with...: Heb. she strengthened her face and said
[14]
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. I have...: Heb. Peace offerings are upon me
[15]
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
[16]
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works , with fine linen 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 goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
[20]
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. with...: Heb. in his hand the day...: or, the new moon
[21]
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
[22]
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; straightway: Heb. suddenly
[23]
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
[24]
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
[25]
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
[26]
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
[27]
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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