Proverbs 7:17-26

¹⁷I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

¹⁸Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.

¹⁹For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,

²⁰having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.

²¹So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from the right path.

²²And he followed her, being gently led on, and that as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

²³and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

²⁴Now then, my son, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵Let not your heart turn aside to her ways :

²⁶for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.