1My son, keep my words,
2Keep my commandments and live;
3Bind them upon thy fingers;
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
6For at the window of my house
7And I beheld among the simple ones,
8Passing through the street near her corner;
9In the twilight, in the evening of the day,
10And, behold, there met him a woman
11(She is clamorous and wilful;
12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,
13So she caught him, and kissed him,
14Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me;
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
17I have perfumed my bed
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;
19For the man is not at home;
20He hath taken a bag of money with him;
21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield;
22He goeth after her straightway,
23Till an arrow strike through his liver;
24Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
25Let not thy heart decline to her ways;
26For she hath cast down many wounded:
27Her house is the way to Sheol,