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7:1  My son, keep my words and hide my commandments in your heart.
7:2  Keep my commandments and live, and my law like the pupil of the eye.
7:3  Tie them on your neck and write them upon the tablets of your heart.
7:4  Say to wisdom, “ You are my sister”, and to understanding, “My expounder of knowledge.”
7:5  For it will keep you from the estranged woman whose words are seductive.
7:6  Because she looked out from a window of her house and from the balcony
7:7  And she saw children and gazed on the boys and on the feebleminded
7:8  Who pass by in the street, beside the corner of the road of her house.
7:9  At evening, at setting of the sun, in the darkness of the night and in thick darkness
7:10  A woman went forth to meet him in the attire of a harlot to make the young men's hearts flutter.
7:11  She is rebellious and a prodigal, and her feet do not rest in her house,
7:12  But she wanders outside from time to time in the streets, and she lies in wait on the corners.
7:13  And she caught him and kissed him, and her face was bold, and she said to him:
7:14  “There are peace sacrifices today; I have paid my vows”,
7:15  “Therefore I went out to meet you, for I've been waiting to see you and I found you.”
7:16  “I have spread my bed on a carpet and with Egyptian bedspreads I have spread it”;
7:17  “I have sprinkled myrrh on my bed and saffron crocus and cinnamon.”
7:18  “Come let us delight in love until the morning and we shall embrace each other in desire”,
7:19  “For my husband has not been in the house; he is gone on the road far away.”
7:20  “He has taken the money bag of money in his hand and it will be for many days before he comes to his house.”
7:21  And she deceived him with the multitude of her words; in the flattery of her lips unto him, she enticed him.
7:22  And he went after her like a child, and like a bull that goes with a butcher, and like a dog to captivity.
7:23  And like a stag when an arrow flies into its liver, he hastens like a living bird to a snare, and does not know that it is to the death of his soul that he goes.
7:24  Therefore, children, hear me and obey the words of my mouth.
7:25  Do not incline your heart to her ways and do not go astray in her paths
7:26  Because she has cast down a multitude of the slain and mighty ones; they all have been killed by her.
7:27  The paths of her house are the paths of Sheol, of those descending to the chambers of death.