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7:1  My son, keep my words, and hold together my teachings within you.
7:2  Keep my words and live. Keep my teachings as you would your own eye.
7:3  Tie them upon your fingers. Write them upon your heart.
7:4  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your special friend.
7:5  They will keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger with her smooth words.
7:6  For I looked out through the wood-work at the window of my house.
7:7  And I saw among the child-like and among the young people a young man without wisdom and understanding.
7:8  He passed through the street near her corner and took the path to her house,
7:9  in the light of the evening, after it was dark.
7:10  See, a woman comes to meet him. She is dressed like a woman who sells the use of her body, and with a heart that wants to fool and trap someone.
7:11  She is loud and has a strong self-will. Her feet do not stay at home.
7:12  She is now in the street, now in the center of town where people gather. She lies in wait at every corner.
7:13  So she catches him and kisses him. With a hard face she says to him,
7:14  “It was time for me to give gifts on the altar in worship, and today I have paid what I promised.
7:15  So I have come out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you.
7:16  I have spread my bed with coverings of linen cloth from Egypt.
7:17  I have perfumed my bed with fine perfumes and spices.
7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until morning. Let us make ourselves happy with love.
7:19  For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long trip.
7:20  He has taken a bag of money with him, and he will come home at full moon.”
7:21  She leads him away with her tempting talk. She tempts him with the smooth words of her lips.
7:22  All at once he follows her, like a bull going to be killed, like a wild animal goes into a trap,
7:23  until an arrow cuts through him. Like a bird that hurries into the net, he does not know that he will lose his life.
7:24  So, my sons, listen to me. Listen to the words of my mouth.
7:25  Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways. Do not turn aside into her paths.
7:26  For she has hurt many and destroyed many others. She has killed a great number.
7:27  Her house is the way to hell, going down to the rooms of death.