Proverbs 7 records Solomon’s eyewitness account of a foolish young man walking into the trap of seduction - the most cinematically vivid warning in all the wisdom books.
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My son, keep my words Lay up my commandments within you
Keep my commandments and live Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye Bind them on your fingers Write them on the tablet of your heart
Tell wisdom, you are my sister Call understanding your relative That they may keep you from the strange woman From the foreigner who flatters with her words
For at the window of my house, I looked out Through my lattice I saw amongst the simple ones A young man void of understanding
Passing through the street near her corner He went the way to her house In the twilight, in the evening of the day In the darkness
Behold, there a woman met him With the attire of a prostitute And with crafty intent She is loud and defiant
Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me Today I have paid my vows Therefore I came out to meet you To diligently seek your face
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry I have perfumed my bed with myrrh and aloes Come, let’s take our fill of loving Until the morning
With persuasive words, she led him astray With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter As a fool stepping into a noose
Until an arrow strikes through his liver As a bird hurries to the snare And doesn’t know that it will cost his life Her house is the way to Sheol
Going down to the rooms of death The path to Sheol
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