7:1
fili mi custodi sermones meos et praecepta mea reconde tibi

7:2
serva mandata mea et vives et legem meam quasi pupillamoculi tui

7:3
liga eam in digitis tuis scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui

7:4
dic sapientiae soror mea es et prudentiam voca amicam tuam

7:5
ut custodiat te a muliere extranea et ab aliena quae verbasua dulcia facit

7:6
de fenestra enim domus meae per cancellos prospexi

7:7
et video parvulos considero vecordem iuvenem

7:8
qui transit in platea iuxta angulum et propter viam domusillius graditur

7:9
in obscuro advesperascente die in noctis tenebris etcaligine

7:10
et ecce mulier occurrit illi ornatu meretricio praeparataad capiendas animas garrula et vaga

7:11
quietis inpatiens nec valens in domo consistere pedibussuis

7:12
nunc foris nunc in plateis nunc iuxta angulos insidians

7:13
adprehensumque deosculatur iuvenem et procaci vultublanditur dicens

7:14
victimas pro salute debui hodie reddidi vota mea

7:15
idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum desiderans te videreet repperi

7:16
intexui funibus lectum meum stravi tapetibus pictis exAegypto

7:17
aspersi cubile meum murra et aloe et cinnamomo

7:18
veni inebriemur uberibus donec inlucescat dies et fruamurcupitis amplexibus

7:19
non est enim vir in domo sua abiit via longissima

7:20
sacculum pecuniae secum tulit in die plenae lunaereversurus est domum suam

7:21
inretivit eum multis sermonibus et blanditiis labiorumprotraxit illum

7:22
statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam et quasiagnus lasciviens et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur

7:23
donec transfigat sagitta iecur eius velut si avis festinetad laqueum et nescit quia de periculo animae illius agitur

7:24
nunc ergo fili audi me et adtende verba oris mei

7:25
ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua neque decipiarissemitis eius

7:26
multos enim vulneratos deiecit et fortissimi quiqueinterfecti sunt ab ea

7:27
viae inferi domus eius penetrantes interiora mortis

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007:001
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

007:002
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

007:003
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

007:004
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

007:005
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

007:006
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

007:007
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

007:008
Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

007:009
In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

007:010
And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

007:011
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

007:012
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

007:013
So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

007:014
I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

007:015
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

007:016
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

007:017
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

007:018
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

007:019
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

007:020
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

007:021
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

007:022
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

007:023
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

007:024
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

007:025
Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

007:026
For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

007:027
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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