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7:1  Follow my advice, my son; always keep it in mind and stick to it.
7:2  Obey me and live! Guard my words as your most precious possession.
7:3  Write them down, and also keep them deep within your heart.
7:4  Love wisdom like a sweetheart; make her a beloved member of your family.
7:5  Let her hold you back from affairs with other women—from listening to their flattery.
7:6  I was looking out the window of my house one day
7:7  and saw a simpleminded lad, a young man lacking common sense,
7:8  walking at twilight down the street to the house of this wayward girl, a prostitute.
7:9  walking at twilight down the street to the house of this wayward girl, a prostitute.
7:10  She approached him, saucy and pert, and dressed seductively.
7:11  She was the brash, coarse type, seen often in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner for men to be her lovers.
7:12  She was the brash, coarse type, seen often in the streets and markets, soliciting at every corner for men to be her lovers.
7:13  She put her arms around him and kissed him, and with a saucy look she said, “I was just coming to look for you and here you are!
7:14  Come home with me, and I’ll fix you a wonderful dinner, and after that—well, my bed is spread with lovely, colored sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt, perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:15  Come home with me, and I’ll fix you a wonderful dinner, and after that—well, my bed is spread with lovely, colored sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt, perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:16  Come home with me, and I’ll fix you a wonderful dinner, and after that—well, my bed is spread with lovely, colored sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt, perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:17  Come home with me, and I’ll fix you a wonderful dinner, and after that—well, my bed is spread with lovely, colored sheets of finest linen imported from Egypt, perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18  Come on, let’s take our fill of love until morning,
7:19  for my husband is away on a long trip.
7:20  He has taken a wallet full of money with him and won’t return for several days.”
7:21  So she seduced him with her pretty speech, her coaxing and her wheedling, until he yielded to her. He couldn’t resist her flattery.
7:22  He followed her as an ox going to the butcher or as a stag that is trapped,
7:23  waiting to be killed with an arrow through its heart. He was as a bird flying into a snare, not knowing the fate awaiting it there.
7:24  Listen to me, young men, and not only listen but obey;
7:25  don’t let your desires get out of hand; don’t let yourself think about her. Don’t go near her; stay away from where she walks, lest she tempt you and seduce you.
7:26  For she has been the ruin of multitudes—a vast host of men have been her victims.
7:27  If you want to find the road to hell, look for her house.