18 Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

20 He took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon.”

21 With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

22 Right away he follows her, and goes like an ox to the slaughter, or bounds like a stag toward the trap

23 until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:18-23, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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