My son, keep my words, and my commands you shall store with you.

Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the pupil of your eyes.

Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Say to wisdom, 'You are my sister,' and call understanding your relative.

To keep you from a foreign woman, from an alien woman and her smooth words.

For from the window of my house, through my lattice I looked.

And I saw among the simple ones, I understood among the youths, a youth lacking sense.

Passing in the street near her corner, and walking the way of her house.

In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the dark of night and the gloom.

And behold, a woman to meet him, the guise of a prostitute, and with a hidden heart.

She is loud and rebellious; her feet do not stay in her house.

Now in the street, now in the squares, and near every corner she lies in wait.

And she seized him and kissed him; she made her face bold and said to him.

Peace offerings are upon me; today I have paid my vows.

Therefore I came out to meet you, to seek your face, and I found you.

I have spread my couch with coverings, with fine linens from Mitsrayim.

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 love.

For the man is not in his house; he has gone on a far journey.

He took a bag of money with him; he will come home on the appointed day.

She led him astray with her much talk; with the smooth talk of her lips she enticed him.

He follows her immediately, like an ox going to slaughter, and like a fool to the correction of the foolish.

Until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird hastening to a snare, and he does not know that his life is at stake.

And now, my sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray in her paths.

For she has cast down many wounded, and all her slain are mighty.

Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.