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7:1  My son, keep my words; store up my commands within you.
7:2  Keep my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil 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”; call understanding “friend,”
7:5  so she might guard you against the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman who flatters you.
7:6  When from the window of my house, from behind the screen, I gazed down,
7:7  I looked among the naive young men and noticed among the youth, one who had no sense.
7:8  He was crossing the street at her corner and walked down the path to her house
7:9  in the early evening, at the onset of night and darkness.
7:10  All of a sudden a woman approaches him, dressed like a prostitute and with a cunning mind.
7:11  She is noisy and defiant; her feet don’t stay long in her own house.
7:12  She has one foot in the street, one foot in the public square. She lies in wait at every corner.
7:13  She grabs him and kisses him. Her face is brazen as she speaks to him:
7:14  “I’ve made a sacrifice of well-being; today I fulfilled my solemn promises.
7:15  So I’ve come out to meet you, seeking you, and I have found you.
7:16  I’ve spread my bed with luxurious covers, with colored linens from Egypt.
7:17  I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  Come, let’s drink deep of love until morning; let’s savor our lovemaking.
7:19  For my husband isn’t home; he’s gone far away.
7:20  He took a pouch of money with him; he won’t come home till full moon.”
7:21  She seduces him with all her talk. She entices him with her flattery.
7:22  He goes headlong after her, like an ox to the slaughter, like a deer leaping into a trap,
7:23  until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird hurrying to the snare, not aware that it will cost him his life.
7:24  Now children, listen to me, and pay attention to my speech.
7:25  Don’t turn your heart to her ways; don’t wander down her paths.
7:26  She has caused many corpses to fall; she has killed many people.
7:27  Her house is a path to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.