Proverbs 7:2-26

²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.

³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

⁴Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.

⁹In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.

¹¹(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

¹²Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

¹⁴I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.

¹⁵Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

¹⁶I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works , with fine linen 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 the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

²⁰He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

²²He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

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

²⁴Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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

²⁶For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.