| 7 | Proverbs | ||
| 1 | My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; | ||
| 2 | keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings 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 insight your intimate friend; | ||
| 5 | to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words. | ||
| 6 | For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, | The immoral woman. Pr.7.6-27 | |
| 7 | and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense, | ||
| 8 | passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house | ||
| 9 | in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. | ||
| 10 | And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart. | ||
| 11 | She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home; | ||
| 12 | now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. | ||
| 13 | She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him: | ||
| 14 | "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; | ||
| 15 | so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. | ||
| 16 | I have decked my couch with coverings, coloured spreads of Egyptian linen; | ||
| 17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | ||
| 18 | Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. | ||
| 19 | For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; | ||
| 20 | he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home." | ||
| 21 | With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. | ||
| 22 | All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast | ||
| 23 | till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. | ||
| 24 | And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. | ||
| 25 | Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths; | ||
| 26 | for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host. | ||
| 27 | He house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. | ||
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