Proverbs 7:16-22

¹⁶I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

¹⁷I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.

¹⁹For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

²⁰He hath taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.'

²¹With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.

²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;