Proverbs 7:16-26

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.