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1My child, keep my words[#Prov 2.1]
and store up my commandments with you;
2keep my commandments and live;[#Deut 32.10; Prov 4.4]
keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
3bind them on your fingers;[#Deut 6.8; Prov 3.3]
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
5that they may keep you from the loose woman,[#Prov 2.16; 5.3; 6.24; #7.5 Heb strange woman]
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6For at the window of my house
I looked out through my lattice,
7and I saw among the simple ones,[#Prov 1.22; 6.32]
I observed among the youths,
a young man without sense,
8passing along the street near her corner,[#vv 12, 27]
taking the road to her house
9in the twilight, in the evening,[#Job 24.15]
at the time of night and darkness.
10Then a woman comes toward him
decked out like a prostitute, with hidden intent.
11She is loud and wayward;[#Prov 9.13; 1 Tim 5.13]
her feet do not stay at home;
12now in the street, now in the squares,[#Prov 23.28]
and at every corner she lies in wait.
13She seizes him and kisses him,
and with impudent face she says to him:
14“I had to offer sacrifices,[#Lev 7.11, 16]
and today I have paid my vows;
15so now I have come out to meet you,
to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!
16I have decked my couch with coverings,[#Prov 31.22; Isa 19.9]
colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until morning;
let us delight ourselves with love.
19For my husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey.
20He took a bag of money with him;
he will not come home until full moon.”
21With much seductive speech she persuades him;[#Prov 5.3]
with her smooth talk she compels him.
22Right away he follows her
and goes like an ox to the slaughter
or bounds like a stag toward the trap
23until an arrow pierces its entrails.[#Eccl 9.12]
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
not knowing that it will cost him his life.
24And now, my children, listen to me,[#Prov 5.7]
and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
25Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways;[#Prov 5.8]
do not stray into her paths.
26For many are those she has laid low,[#Prov 9.18]
and numerous are her victims.
27Her house is the way to Sheol,[#Prov 2.18; 5.5; 9.18]
going down to the chambers of death.