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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 table 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 stranger which flattereth with her words.
7:6  For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
7:7  And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, 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 of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.
7:11  She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
7:12  Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:
7:14  Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.
7:15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
7:16  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn 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 loves.
7:19  For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
7:20  He hath taken a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.
7:21  With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.
7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as fetters to the correction of the fool;
7:23  Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
7:24  Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, 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, all her slain are a mighty host.
7:27  Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.