Proverbs 7 — ULB

7Verse 1My son, keep my words
and store up my commands within yourself.
^{Verse 2}Keep my commands and live
and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.
^{Verse 3}Tie them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
^{Verse 4}Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding your kinsman,
^{Verse 5}in order to keep yourself from the adulterous woman,
from the immoral woman with her smooth words.
^{Verse 6}At the window of my house
I was looking out through the lattice.
^{Verse 7}I looked at the naive people,
and I noticed among the young men
a youth who had no sense.
^{Verse 8}That young man passed down the street near her corner,
and he went toward her house.
^{Verse 9}It was twilight, in the evening of the day,
at the time of night and darkness.
^{Verse 10}There a woman met him,
dressed like a prostitute, with a false heart.
^{Verse 11}She was loud and wayward;
her feet did not stay at home.
^{Verse 12}Now in the streets, then in the market place,
and at every corner she waited in ambush.
^{Verse 13}So she grabbed him and kissed him,
with a strong face she said to him,
^{Verse 14}“I made my peace offering today,
I paid my vows,
^{Verse 15}so came I out to meet you,
to eagerly seek your face, and I have found you.
^{Verse 16}I have spread coverings on my bed,
colored linens from Egypt.
^{Verse 17}I have sprinkled my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
^{Verse 18}Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
let us take great pleasure in acts of love.
^{Verse 19}For my husband is not at his house;
he has gone on a long journey.
^{Verse 20}He took a bag of money with him;
he will return on the day of the full moon.”
^{Verse 21}With much talk she turned him;
with her smooth lips she misled him.
^{Verse 22}He went after her suddenly
like an ox going to slaughter,
like a deer caught in a trap,^{+
Verse 23}until an arrow pierces through its liver.
He was like a bird rushing into a snare.
He did not know that it would cost his life.
^{Verse 24}Now, my sons, listen to me;
pay attention to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 25}May your heart not turn aside onto her paths;
do not be led astray onto her paths.
^{Verse 26}She has caused many people to fall down pierced;
her dead victims are very many.
^{Verse 27}Her house is on the paths to Sheol;
they go down to the dark bedrooms of death.