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, 
 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:  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, 
 14  I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed
my vows.  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. 
 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;  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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