1My son, keep my words, and treasure my commandments with you.2Keep my commandments and live, and my instruction as the pupil of your eye.3Bind them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart.4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your kinsman.5To keep you from the stranger woman, from the foreign woman whose words she has made smooth.6For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out.7And I saw among the simple; I understood among the sons a youth lacking heart.8Passing along the street beside her corner, and marching by the way to her house.9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the pupil of the night and in darkness.10And behold, a woman comes to meet him, dressed as a prostitute, with a guarded heart.11She is loud and rebellious; her feet do not dwell at home.12Now outside, now in the plazas, and beside every corner she lies in wait.13She seizes him and kisses him; with a bold face she says to him.14I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows.15Therefore I came out to meet you, to seek your face, and I found you.16I have spread my bed with coverings, colored fine linen from Egypt.17I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.18Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.19For the man is not at home; he has gone on a distant journey.20He took a bundle of silver in his hand; for the day of the full moon he will come to his house.21With much persuasion she turns him aside; with the smoothness of her lips she drives him away.22He follows after her suddenly, like an ox to the slaughter, and like a fool to discipline.23Until an arrow cleaves his liver, like a bird hastening to a snare, and he does not know that it is for his soul.24And now, sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.26For many she has laid low, and all her slain are mighty.27The ways of Sheol are her house, going down to the chambers of death.