1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments within you. 2Keep my commandments and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye. 3Tie them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman, 5that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who makes smooth her words. 6For I looked through my lattice, at the window of my house, 7and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the children a young man lacking heart, 8passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the darkness of night. 10And behold, a woman came to meet him, with the attire of a harlot, and a heart of secrecy. 11(She is boisterous and stubborn; her feet do not settle down in her own house. 12At one moment she is outside, the next in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner.) 13So she has seized him and kissed him; and with straight face says to him, 14Regarding my peace offerings, today I have completed my vows; 15therefore I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you. 16I have spread my bed with coverings, with striped cloths of linen from Egypt. 17I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon. 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with lovemaking. 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. 20He has taken in hand a bag of money, and will come home on the day of the full moon. 21With great persuasion she influences him; with her seductive lips she moves him. 22In an instant he goes after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool goes to correction in fetters; 23till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare; and does not realize that it is for his soul. 24Now then, listen to me, O sons, and pay attention to the words of my mouth: 25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths. 26For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, and countless are the ones slain by her. 27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.