Proverbs 7:1-26

¹My son, heed my advice, and guard my instructions as you would MET guard a treasure.

²Obey my commands, and as a result you will live a good life. Consider the things that I teach you to be very precious; guard them, just like you protect your eyes.

³Tie my commands around your fingers in order that they will remind you to obey them. Always keep them in mind MET.

⁴Love wisdom like you love your sister. Understand what is wise, and let that be as dear to you as members of your family.

⁵If you are wise and if you understand what is wise PRS, you will not sleep with an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says.

⁶One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.

⁷I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.

⁸He crossed the street near the house of an immoral woman. He was walking along the path toward her house

⁹at twilight, when it was getting dark DOU.

¹⁰Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him. She was dressed ◄seductively/like a prostitute►, wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.

¹¹She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious; she SYN never stayed at home.

¹²She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets, waiting to trap some man.

¹³When she saw that young man, she put her arms around him and kissed him. Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,

¹⁴“I have some meat that is left over from a sacrifice that I made today to maintain fellowship with Yahweh; I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.

¹⁵And now I have come out to meet/see you. I was searching for you, and now I have found you!

¹⁶I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from very fine linen that were imported { people brought} from Egypt.

¹⁷I have sprinkled sweet-smelling perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

¹⁸Come with me; let us enjoy having sex until tomorrow morning. Let's enjoy making love.

¹⁹My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.

²⁰He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”

²¹So she persuaded him by her enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.

²²And he went with her immediately, like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered, or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,

²³where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver and kills it. He was like a bird that flew into a trap. He did not know that ◄it would cost him his life/he would die as a result►.

²⁴My son, listen to what I say; pay careful attention to my words.

²⁵Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that. Do not go where she goes.

²⁶She has caused many men to be ruined; truly, no one can count the men she has killed.