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