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Proverbs 7

¹My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.

²Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.

³Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart.

⁴Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend.

⁵They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.

⁶Once I was looking out the window of my house,

⁷and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular.

⁸He was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house

⁹in the evening after it was dark.

¹⁰And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans.

¹¹She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets

¹²or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.

¹³She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said,

¹⁴"I made my offerings today and have the meat from the sacrifices.

¹⁵So I came out looking for you. I wanted to find you, and here you are!

¹⁶I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt.

¹⁷I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms.

¹⁹My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip.

²⁰He took plenty of money with him and won't be back for two weeks."

²¹So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.

²²Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap

²³where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger.

²⁴Now then, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say.

²⁵Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her.

²⁶She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.

²⁷If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.