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