71My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.+2Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.+3Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.+4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:+5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.+6For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;+7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,+8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,+9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.+10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.+11( She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:+12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)+13So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:+14Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.+15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.+16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.+17I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.+18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.+19For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:+20He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.+21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.+22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;+23Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.+24Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.+25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.+26For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.+27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.+
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