CLV(i)
1 My son, keep my sayings, And store up my instructions within you."
2 Keep my instructions and live, And guard my law as the pupil of your eyes."
3 Tie them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister, And call understanding your near relative,
5 In order to keep you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who makes her sayings slick."
6 For at the window of my house I gazed out through my latticed oriel,
7 And I saw among the simple, I detected among the sons, A youth who had lack of heart wisdom."
8 He was passing along the road beside her corner, And he stepped the way to her house,
9 In the gloaming at the evening of the day, In the tranquil night and the gloom;"
10 And behold, a woman came out to meet him In the burnoose of a prostitute and constricted of heart."
11 She is clamorous and stubborn; Her feet never tabernacle at her home;
12 At times in the street, at times in the squares, And beside every corner she waits in ambush."
13 She held him fast and kissed him; She set her face with impudence and said to him:
14 The sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; Today I paid my vows.
15 Therefore, I came forth to meet you, To seek your face early, and I have found you."
16 I have decorated my divan with decorative covers, With bedspreads of Egyptian yarn."
17 I have wafted my bed with myrrh, Aloes and cinnamon."
18 Do come, let us satiate ourselves with affection until the morning; Let us make ourselves joyous with love expressions."
19 For the husband is not in his home; He has gone on his way afar.
20 He took a pouch of silver in his hand, And he shall come back to his home only with the day of full moon."
21 She turned him aside with her great influence; With slick words on her lips she induced him.
22 Suddenly he was going after her, Like a bull that comes to the slaughter, Like a calf to the bonds of foolish creatures,
23 Until an arrow thrusts through his liver, As through a bird that hastened to the snare When it did not know that it was set for its soul."
24 Now then, my sons, hearken to me, And attend to the sayings of my mouth."
25 Do not let your heart swerve to her ways; Do not stray into her tracks.
26 For many are the mortally wounded she has cast down, And plentiful are all those killed by her."
27 Her house is a road to the unseen, One descending to the chambers of death."