71My son, keep my words.Lay up my commandments within you.+2Keep my commandments and live!Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.+3Bind them on your fingers.Write them on the tablet of your heart.+4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”Call understanding your relative,+5that they may keep you from the strange woman,from the foreigner who flatters with her words.+6For at the window of my house,I looked out through my lattice.+7I saw among the simple ones.I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,+8passing through the street near her corner,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.+10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,and with crafty intent.+11She is loud and defiant.Her feet don’t stay in her house.+12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,and lurking at every corner.+13So she caught him, and kissed him.With an impudent face she said to him:+14“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.Today I have paid my vows.+15Therefore I came out to meet you,to diligently seek your face,and I have found you.+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’s take our fill of loving until the morning.Let’s solace ourselves with loving.+19For my husband isn’t at home.He has gone on a long journey.+20He has taken a bag of money with him.He will come home at the full moon.”+21With persuasive words, she led him astray.With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.+22He followed her immediately,as an ox goes to the slaughter,as a fool stepping into a noose.+23Until an arrow strikes through his liver,as a bird hurries to the snare,and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.+24Now therefore, sons, listen to me.Pay attention to the words of my mouth.+25Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.Don’t go astray in her paths,+26for she has thrown down many wounded.Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.+27Her house is the way to Sheol,going down to the rooms of death.+Footnotes (1)
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