Proverbs 7:18-26

¹⁸Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.

¹⁹For the master of the house is away on a long journey:

²⁰He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.

²¹With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

²²The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

²³Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.

²⁴So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;

²⁵Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

²⁶For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.