Proverbs 7:7–27

⁷and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding, 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 blackness of night and the darkness. ¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. ¹¹She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house: ¹²now without, now in the broadways, —and she lieth in wait at every corner. ¹³And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, ¹⁴I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows: ¹⁵therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee. ¹⁶I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt; ¹⁷I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves. ¹⁹For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; ²⁰he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon. ²¹With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. ²²He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool; ²³till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

²⁴And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. ²⁵Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: ²⁶for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong. ²⁷Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.