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1 - My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

2 - Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

3 - Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

4 - Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou <FI>art<Fi> .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

5 - To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

6 - For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

7 - And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

8 - Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way <FI>to<Fi> her house he doth step,

9 - In the twilight--in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

10 - And, lo, a woman to meet him--(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

11 - Noisy she <FI>is<Fi> , and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

12 - Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

13 - And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

14 - `Sacrifices of peace-offerings <FI>are<Fi> by me, To-day I have completed my vows.

15 - Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

16 - <FI> With<Fi> ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works--cotton of Egypt.

17 - I sprinkled my bed--myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 - Come, we are filled <FI>with<Fi> loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

19 - For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

20 - A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

21 - She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

22 - He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

23 - Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it <FI>is<Fi> for its life.

24 - And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

25 - Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

26 - For many <FI>are<Fi> the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty <FI>are<Fi> all her slain ones.

27 - The ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!