Proverbs 7:1-27 LSB

[1] My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you. [2] Keep my commandments and live, And my law as the apple of your eye. [3] Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart. [4] Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your intimate friend; [5] In order to keep you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words. [6] For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, [7] And I saw among the simple, And discerned among the sons A young man lacking a heart of wisdom, [8] Passing through the street near her corner; And he strides along the way to her house, [9] In the twilight, in the evening of that day, In the middle of the night, and in the thick darkness. [10] And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. [11] She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not dwell at home; [12] Stepping in the streets, stepping in the squares, And near every corner she lies in wait. [13] So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him: [14] “The sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; Today I paid my vows. [15] “Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your face earnestly, and I have found you. [16] “I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt. [17] “I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. [18] “Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning; Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love. [19] “For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a journey far away; [20] He took a bag of silver in his hand, On the day of the full moon he will come home.” [21] With her abundant persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she drives him to herself. [22] He suddenly follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of an ignorant fool, [23] Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, And he does not know that it will cost him his soul. [24] So now, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth. [25] Do not let your heart go astray into her ways, Do not wander into her pathways. [26] For many are the slain whom she has cast down, And numerous are all those killed by her. [27] The ways to Sheol are in her house, Descending to the chambers of death.