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7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
7:2  Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the apple of thine eye.
7:3  Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the tablet of thine heart.
7:4  Say unto wisdom, “Thou art my sister,” and call understanding thy kinswoman,
7:5  that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the harlot who flattereth with her words.
7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7:7  and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youth, a young man void of understanding,
7:8  passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
7:9  in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.
7:10  And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart.
7:11  (She is loud and stubborn, her feet abide not in her house;
7:12  now is she outside, now in the streets and lieth in wait at every corner.)
7:13  So she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him:
7:14  “I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
7:15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently seeking thy face, and I have found thee.
7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
7:17  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with love.
7:19  For the master is not at home; he is gone on a long journey.
7:20  He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.”
7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
7:23  until a dart strike through his liver, as a bird hasteneth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life.
7:24  Hearken unto me now, therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her ways; go not astray in her paths.
7:26  For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
7:27  Her house is the way to hell, leading down to the chambers of death.