Proverbes 7.22
English standard version

La femme débauchée

¹ My son, keep my words
and treasure up my commandments with you;
² keep my commandments and live;
keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
³ bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister,
and call insight your intimate friend,
⁵ to keep you from the forbidden woman,
from the adulteress with her smooth words.
⁶ For at the window of my house
I have looked out through my lattice,
⁷ and I have seen among the simple,
I have perceived among the youths,
a young man lacking sense,
⁸ passing along the street near her corner,
taking the road to her house
⁹ in the twilight, in the evening,
at the time of night and darkness.
¹⁰ And behold, the woman meets him,
dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.
¹¹ She is loud and wayward;
her feet do not stay at home;
¹² now in the street, now in the market,
and at every corner she lies in wait.
¹³ She seizes him and kisses him,
and with bold face she says to him,
¹⁴ I had to offer sacrifices,
and today I have paid my vows;
¹⁵ so now I have come out to meet you,
to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
¹⁶ I have spread my couch with coverings,
colored linens from Egyptian linen;
¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
let us delight ourselves with love.
¹⁹ For my husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey;
²⁰ he took a bag of money with him;
at full moon he will come home.
²¹ With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with her smooth talk she compels him.
²² All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast
²³ till an arrow pierces its liver;
as a bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.
²⁴ And now, O sons, listen to me,
and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
²⁵ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;
do not stray into her paths,
²⁶ for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are a mighty throng.
²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.