1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you. | IP¹ | IP² | TOSK | TT¹ | TT¹ |
2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. | IP | TOSK | TT |
3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. | IP | TOSK | TT |
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman, | TOSK |
5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words. | TOSK |
6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice. | TOSK |
7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment, | TOSK |
8 crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house, | TOSK |
9 at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night. | TOSK |
10 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart. | TOSK |
11 She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home. | TOSK |
12 Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner. | TOSK |
13 She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him: | TOSK |
14 “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows. | TOSK |
15 So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you. | TOSK |
16 I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt. | TOSK |
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon. | TOSK |
18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses! | TOSK |
19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. | TOSK |
20 He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.” | TOSK |
21 With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him. | TOSK |
22 He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap, | TOSK |
23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life. | TOSK |
24 Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth. | TOSK |
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths. | TOSK |
26 For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. | TOSK |
27 Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. | TOSK |