PROVERBS 7:3-22

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

⁴Say unto 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 forth through my lattice;

⁷And I 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 of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

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

¹¹She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:

¹²Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.

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

¹⁴Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.

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

¹⁶I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn 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 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;