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 beheld among the simple ones,
8Passing through the street near her corner;
9In the twilight, in the evening,
10And behold, there met him a woman
11(She is loud and stubborn;
12Now is she without, now in the streets,
13So she caught him, and kissed him,
14I have peace offerings with me;
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
16I have deckt my bed with coverings of tapestry,
17I have perfumed my bed
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:
19For the goodman is not at home,
20He hath taken a bag of money with him,
21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,
22He goeth after her straightway,
23Till a dart strike through his liver;
24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,
25Let not thine heart decline to her ways,
26For she hath cast down many wounded:
27Her house is the way to hell,