VIN(i)
1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman,
5 That they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
7 And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking ⌊sense⌋,
8 Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,
9 at twilight, at the day's evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.
10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
12 Now in the street, now in the square, at every corner she lies in wait.
13 So she grabs hold of him and kisses him, with a brazen face she speaks to him,
14 "I have given my peace offerings, and today I fulfilled my vows.
15 So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.
16 "I covered my bed with fine linen from Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
19 For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
23 until an arrow pierces his entrails, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that it will cost him his life.
24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host
27 Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.