ECB(i)
5 to guard you from the strange woman - from the stranger who smoothes it over with her sayings.
6 For at a window of my house I look through my lattice;
7 and see among the gullible: I discern among the sons a lad lacking heart
8 passing through the street beside her corner: and he paces the way to her house
9 in the evening breeze - in the evening of the day in the darkness of midnight:
10 and behold, a woman meets him with the masculine garment of a whore: with guarded heart
11 she roars and revolts; her feet tabernacle not in her house
12 - at this time in the outways at that time in the broadways and lurks beside every corner.
13 She holds him and kisses him and with strengthened face says to him,
14 I have shelamim with me; this day I shalamed my vows:
15 so I come to meet you early seeking your face, and I find you:
16 I spread my bedstead with spreads, with carvings, with tapestry of Misrayim:
17 I rubbed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon:
18 come, we satiate with loves until the morning - leap for joy with loves:
19 for the man is not in his house; - gone on a far journey:
20 he took a bundle of silver in his hand; and comes home at the day of the full moon.
21 With her abundant doctrine, she spreads him out; with the smoothing over of her lips she drives him:
22 suddenly he goes after her - as an ox going to the slaughter - as a fool to the discipline of tinklers:
23 until an arrow strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and knows not it is for his soul.
24 Now, you sons, hearken to me; hearken to the sayings of my mouth:
25 neither deviate your heart to her ways; nor stray in her paths:
26 for she casts down many pierced; slaughters many mighty:
27 her house is the way to sheol descending to the chambers of death.