Proverbios 7

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. ² Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye. ³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart. ⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman: ⁵ that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice, ⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding, ⁸ passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, ⁹ in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. ¹⁰ And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. ¹¹ She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house: ¹² now without, now in the broadways, --and she lieth in wait at every corner. ¹³ And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, ¹⁴ I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows: ¹⁵ therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶ I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt; ¹⁷ I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves. ¹⁹ For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; ²⁰ he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon. ²¹ With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. ²² He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool; ²³ till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

²⁴ And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: ²⁶ for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong. ²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.