Proverbs 7 · משלי

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my Tora as the apple of thy eye.

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman who makes smooth her words.

For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,

and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

in the twilight, in the evening, in the blackness of a dark night:

and, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

(She is noisy and ungovernable: her feet do not remain in her house:

now is she outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner.)

So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

I have had to sacrifice peace offerings; this day have I paid my vows.

So I came out to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I have decked my bed with coverings, with tapestry of Miżrian yarn.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with loves.

For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

he has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the full moon.

With her much fair speech she causes him to yield, with the smoothness of her lips she seduces him.

He goes after her at once, as an ox goes to the slaughter, and as a man in chains to the chastisement of a fool;

till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.

Hearken to me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Let not thy heart decline to her ways, do not go astray in her paths.

For she has cast down many wounded: and many strong men have been slain by her.

Her house is the way to She᾽ol, going down to the chambers of death.