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7:1  My son, pay close attention and don't forget what I tell you to do.
7:2  Obey me, and you will live! Let my instructions be your greatest treasure.
7:3  Keep them at your fingertips and write them in your mind.
7:4  Let wisdom be your sister and make common sense your closest friend.
7:5  They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.
7:6  From the window of my house, I once happened to see
7:7  some foolish young men.
7:8  It was late in the evening, sometime after dark.
7:9  One of these young men turned the corner and was walking by the house of an unfaithful wife.
7:10  She was dressed fancy like a woman of the street with only one thing in mind.
7:11  She was one of those women who are loud and restless and never stay at home,
7:12  who walk street after street, waiting to trap a man.
7:13  She grabbed him and kissed him, and with no sense of shame, she said:
7:14  “I had to offer a sacrifice, and there is enough meat left over for a feast.
7:15  So I came looking for you, and here you are!
7:16  The sheets on my bed are bright-colored cloth from Egypt.
7:17  And I have covered it with perfume made of myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  “Let's go there and make love all night.
7:19  My husband is traveling, and he's far away.
7:20  He took a lot of money along, and he won't be back home before the middle of the month.”
7:21  And so, she tricked him with all of her sweet talk and her flattery.
7:22  At once he followed her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, or like a fool on the way to be punished
7:23  and killed with arrows. He was no more than a bird rushing into a trap, without knowing it would cost him his life.
7:24  My son, pay close attention to what I have said.
7:25  Don't even think about that kind of woman or let yourself be misled by someone like her.
7:26  Such a woman has caused the downfall and destruction of a lot of men.
7:27  Her house is a one-way street leading straight down to the world of the dead.