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[1] My son, keep my words.
Lay up my commandments within you.
[2] Keep my commandments and live!
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
[3] Bind them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
[4] Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Call understanding your relative,
[5] that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
[6] For at the window of my house,
I looked out through my lattice.
[7] I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
[8] passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,
[9] in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
[10] Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
[11] She is loud and defiant.
Her feet don’t stay in her house.
[12] Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurking at every corner.
[13] So she caught him, and kissed him.
With an impudent face she said to him:
[14] “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
Today I have paid my vows.
[15] Therefore I came out to meet you,
to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
[16] I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
[17] I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
[18] Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
[19] For my husband isn’t at home.
He has gone on a long journey.
[20] He has taken a bag of money with him.
He will come home at the full moon.”
[21] With persuasive words, she led him astray.
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
[22] He followed her immediately,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
as a fool stepping into a noose.
[23] Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
as a bird hurries to the snare,
and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. [24] Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
[25] Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,
[26] for she has thrown down many wounded.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
[27] Her house is the way to Sheol,ⓘ
going down to the rooms of death.
Lay up my commandments within you.
[2] Keep my commandments and live!
Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
[3] Bind them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
[4] Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Call understanding your relative,
[5] that they may keep you from the strange woman,
from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
[6] For at the window of my house,
I looked out through my lattice.
[7] I saw among the simple ones.
I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
[8] passing through the street near her corner,
he went the way to her house,
[9] in the twilight, in the evening of the day,
in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
[10] Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
and with crafty intent.
[11] She is loud and defiant.
Her feet don’t stay in her house.
[12] Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
and lurking at every corner.
[13] So she caught him, and kissed him.
With an impudent face she said to him:
[14] “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.
Today I have paid my vows.
[15] Therefore I came out to meet you,
to diligently seek your face,
and I have found you.
[16] I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
[17] I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
[18] Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning.
Let’s solace ourselves with loving.
[19] For my husband isn’t at home.
He has gone on a long journey.
[20] He has taken a bag of money with him.
He will come home at the full moon.”
[21] With persuasive words, she led him astray.
With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
[22] He followed her immediately,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
as a fool stepping into a noose.
[23] Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
as a bird hurries to the snare,
and doesn’t know that it will cost his life. [24] Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
[25] Don’t let your heart turn to her ways.
Don’t go astray in her paths,
[26] for she has thrown down many wounded.
Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
[27] Her house is the way to Sheol,ⓘ
going down to the rooms of death.
Footnotes
- Sheol is the place of the dead.
King James Version
[1] My son,H1121 keepH8104(QalImpv) my words,H561 and lay upH6845(QalImpf) my commandmentsH4687 with thee. [2] KeepH8104(QalImpv) my commandments,H4687 and live;H2421(QalImpv) and my lawH8451 as the appleH380 of thine eye.H5869 [3] BindH7194(QalImpv) them upon thy fingers,H676 writeH3789(QalImpv) them upon the tableH3871 of thine heart.H3820 [4] SayH559(QalImpv) unto wisdom,H2451 Thou [art] my sister;H269 and callH7121(QalImpf) understandingH998 [thy] kinswoman:H4129 [5] That they may keepH8104(QalInf) thee from the strangeH2114(QalPtc) woman,H802 from the strangerH5237 [which] flatterethH2505(HiphPerf) with her words.H561 [6] For at the windowH2474 of my houseH1004 I lookedH8259(NiphPerf) through my casement,H822 [7] And beheldH7200(QalImpf) among the simple ones,H6612 I discernedH995(QalImpf) among the youths,H1121 a young manH5288 voidH2638 of understanding,H3820 [8] Passing throughH5674(QalActPtc) the streetH7784 nearH681 her corner;H6434 and he wentH6805(QalImpf) the wayH1870 to her house,H1004 [9] In the twilight,H5399 in the evening,H3117 in the blackH380 and darkH653 night:H3915 [10] And, behold, there metH7125(QalInf) him a womanH802 [with] the attireH7897 of an harlot,H2181(QalActPtc) and subtilH5341(QalPasPtc) of heart.H3820 [11] (She [is] loudH1993(QalActPtc) and stubborn;H5637(QalActPtc) her feetH7272 abideH7931(QalImpf) not in her house:H1004 [12] NowH6471 [is she] without,H2351 nowH6471 in the streets,H7339 and lieth in waitH693(QalImpf) atH681 every corner.H6438) [13] So she caughtH2388(HiphPerf) him, and kissedH5401(QalPerf) him, [and] with an impudentH5810(HiphPerf) faceH6440 saidH559(QalImpf) unto him, [14] [I have] peaceH8002 offeringsH2077 with me; this dayH3117 have I payedH7999(PielPerf) my vows.H5088 [15] Therefore came I forthH3318(QalPerf) to meetH7125(QalInf) thee, diligently to seekH7836(PielInf) thy face,H6440 and I have foundH4672(QalImpf) thee. [16] I have deckedH7234(QalPerf) my bedH6210 with coveringsH4765 of tapestry, with carvedH2405 [works], with fine linenH330 of Egypt.H4714 [17] I have perfumedH5130(QalPerf) my bedH4904 with myrrh,H4753 aloes,H174 and cinnamon.H7076 [18] Come,H3212(QalImpv) let us take our fillH7301(QalImpf) of loveH1730 until the morning:H1242 let us solaceH5965(HithImpf) ourselves with loves.H159 [19] For the goodmanH376 [is] not at home,H1004 he is goneH1980(QalPerf) a longH7350 journey:H1870 [20] He hath takenH3947(QalPerf) a bagH6872 of moneyH3701 with him,H3027 [and] will comeH935(QalImpf) homeH1004 at the dayH3117 appointed.H3677 [21] With her muchH7230 fair speechH3948 she caused him to yield,H5186(HiphPerf) with the flatteringH2506 of her lipsH8193 she forcedH5080(HiphImpf) him. [22] He goethH1980(QalActPtc) afterH310 her straightway,H6597 as an oxH7794 goethH935(QalImpf) to the slaughter,H2874 or as a foolH191 to the correctionH4148 of the stocks;H5914 [23] Till a dartH2671 strikeH6398(PielImpf) through his liver;H3516 as a birdH6833 hastethH4116(PielInf) to the snare,H6341 and knowethH3045(QalPerf) not that it [is] for his life.H5315 [24] HearkenH8085(QalImpv) unto me now therefore, O ye children,H1121 and attendH7181(HiphImpv) to the wordsH561 of my mouth.H6310 [25] Let not thine heartH3820 declineH7847(QalImpf) to her ways,H1870 go not astrayH8582(QalImpf) in her paths.H5410 [26] For she hath cast downH5307(HiphPerf) manyH7227 wounded:H2491 yea, many strongH6099 [men] have been slainH2026(QalPasPtc) by her. [27] Her houseH1004 [is] the wayH1870 to hell,H7585 going downH3381(QalActPtc) to the chambersH2315 of death.H4194
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