| 1)   |  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. | 
		
			| 2)   |  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. | 
		
			| 3)   |  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. | 
		
			| 4)   |  Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: | 
		
			| 5)   |  That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. | 
		
			| 6)   |  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, | 
		
			| 7)   |  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, | 
		
			| 8)   |  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, | 
		
			| 9)   |  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: | 
		
			| 10)   |  And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. | 
		
			| 11)   |  (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: | 
		
			| 12)   |  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) | 
		
			| 13)   |  So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, | 
		
			| 14)   |  I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. | 
		
			| 15)   |  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. | 
		
			| 16)   |  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. | 
		
			| 17)   |  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | 
		
			| 18)   |  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. | 
		
			| 19)   |  For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: | 
		
			| 20)   |  He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. | 
		
			| 21)   |  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. | 
		
			| 22)   |  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; | 
		
			| 23)   |  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. | 
		
			| 24)   |  Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. | 
		
			| 25)   |  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. | 
		
			| 26)   |  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. | 
		
			| 27)   |  Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. |