Proverbs 7:4-23

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

⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.

⁶For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

⁷And I beheld among the thoughtless 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 a harlot, and wily of heart.

¹¹She is riotous and rebellious, 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:

¹⁴'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.

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

¹⁶I have decked my couch with coverlets, 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 my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

²⁰He hath taken the 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 blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.

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

²³Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.