Proverbs 7:8-22

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 in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

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

¹²now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.

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

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

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

¹⁶I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;

¹⁷I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.

¹⁹For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

²⁰he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.

²¹With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

²²He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;