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7:1  My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
7:2  keep my commandments and live; keep 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 insight your intimate friend,
7:5  to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
7:6  For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,
7:7  and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,
7:8  passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
7:9  in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
7:10  And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
7:11  She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
7:12  now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
7:13  She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,
7:14  “I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
7:15  so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
7:16  I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;
7:17  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
7:19  For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
7:20  he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”
7:21  With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
7:22  All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
7:23  till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
7:24  And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
7:25  Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,
7:26  for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.
7:27  Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.