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7:1  My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
7:2  Keep my commandments and live, And my law as the apple of your eye.
7:3  Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
7:4  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your intimate friend;
7:5  In order to keep you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words.
7:6  For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
7:7  And I saw among the simple, And discerned among the sons A young man lacking a heart of wisdom,
7:8  Passing through the street near her corner; And he strides along the way to her house,
7:9  In the twilight, in the evening of that day, In the middle of the night, and in the thick darkness.
7:10  And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
7:11  She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not dwell at home;
7:12  Stepping in the streets, stepping in the squares, And near every corner she lies in wait.
7:13  So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:
7:14  “The sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; Today I paid my vows.
7:15  Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your face earnestly, and I have found you.
7:16  I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.
7:17  I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning; Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love.
7:19  For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a journey far away;
7:20  He took a bag of silver in his hand, On the day of the full moon he will come home.”
7:21  With her abundant persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she drives him to herself.
7:22  He suddenly follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of an ignorant fool,
7:23  Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, And he does not know that it will cost him his soul.
7:24  So now, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
7:25  Do not let your heart go astray into her ways, Do not wander into her pathways.
7:26  For many are the slain whom she has cast down, And numerous are all those killed by her.
7:27  The ways to Sheol are in her house, Descending to the chambers of death.