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Another Warning about Immoral Women
Follow my advice, my son;
always treasure my commands.
Follow my advice, my son;
always treasure my commands.
Warnings about the Adulteress
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Tie them on your fingers as a reminder.
Write them deep within your heart.
Write them deep within your heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Love wisdom like a sister;
make insight a beloved member of your family.
make insight a beloved member of your family.
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
Let them protect you from an affair with an immoral woman,
from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
from listening to the flattery of a promiscuous woman.
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
While I was at the window of my house,
looking through the curtain,
looking through the curtain,
For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
I saw some naive young men,
and one in particular who lacked common sense.
and one in particular who lacked common sense.
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
He was crossing the street near the house of an immoral woman,
strolling down the path by her house.
strolling down the path by her house.
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
It was at twilight, in the evening,
as deep darkness fell.
as deep darkness fell.
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
The woman approached him,
seductively dressed and sly of heart.
seductively dressed and sly of heart.
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
She was the brash, rebellious type,
never content to stay at home.
never content to stay at home.
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
She is often in the streets and markets,
soliciting at every corner.
soliciting at every corner.
now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.
She threw her arms around him and kissed him,
and with a brazen look she said,
and with a brazen look she said,
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
“I’ve just made my peace offerings
and fulfilled my vows.
and fulfilled my vows.
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
You’re the one I was looking for!
I came out to find you, and here you are!
I came out to find you, and here you are!
therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
My bed is spread with beautiful blankets,
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
I’ve perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.
Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,
Let’s enjoy each other’s caresses,
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
for my husband is not home.
He’s away on a long trip.
He’s away on a long trip.
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
So she seduced him with her pretty speech
and enticed him with her flattery.
and enticed him with her flattery.
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
awaiting the arrow that would pierce its heart.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
little knowing it would cost him his life.
He was like a bird flying into a snare,
little knowing it would cost him his life.
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
So listen to me, my sons,
and pay attention to my words.
and pay attention to my words.
And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Don’t let your hearts stray away toward her.
Don’t wander down her wayward path.
Don’t wander down her wayward path.
Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
For she has been the ruin of many;
many men have been her victims.
many men have been her victims.
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.