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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows; |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.” |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths, |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. |
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