PROVERBS 7:17-26

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 the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

²⁰He hath taken a 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 flattering of her lips she forceth him away.

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

²³Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²⁴Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

²⁶For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host.