My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee (7:1)

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye (7:2)

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart (7:3)

Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman: (7:4)

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words (7:5)

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, (7:6)

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, (7:7)

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, (7:8)

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: (7:9)

And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart (7:10)

(She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: (7:11)

Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) (7:12)

So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, (7:13)

[I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows (7:14)

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee (7:15)

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt (7:16)

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon (7:17)

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves (7:18)

For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: (7:19)

He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed (7:20)

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him (7:21)

He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; (7:22)

Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life (7:23)

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth (7:24)

Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths (7:25)

For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her (7:26)

Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death (7:27)

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