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7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments within you.
7:2  Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple 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,” and call understanding your kinswoman,
7:5  that they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words.
7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7:7  and saw 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, in the black and dark night.
7:10  And there a woman met him, with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
7:11  She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not abide in her house.
7:12  Now she is without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.
7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him; and with an impudent face said to him:
7:14  “I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
7:15  Therefore I came out to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
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 my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
7:20  he has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.”
7:21  With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.
7:22  He went after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
7:23  until a dart struck through his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, he did not know that it would cost him his life.
7:24  Listen to me now therefore, O children, and attend to the words of my mouth:
7:25  do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, do not go astray in her paths;
7:26  for she has cast down many wounded, and many strong men have been slain by her.
7:27  Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.