| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Keep my commandments and live, And 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 understanding your intimate friend; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home; |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him: |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey; |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He has taken a bag of money with him, At the full moon he will come home." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it will cost him his life. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her paths. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death. |
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