1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; (Przyp 2,1)2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; (Pwt 32,10; Przyp 4,4)3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Przyp 3,3)4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,5to keep you from the forbidden[1] woman, from the adulteress[2] with her smooth words. (Przyp 2,16)6For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice, (Sdz 5,28)7and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense, (Przyp 1,4; Przyp 6,32)8passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house (Przyp 7,12)9in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness. (Job 24,15; Przyp 20,20)10And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.[3] (Rdz 38,14)11She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home; (Przyp 9,13; Oz 4,16; 1 Tm 5,13; Tt 2,5)12now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait. (Przyp 7,8; Przyp 23,28)13She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him, (Przyp 21,29)14“I had to offer sacrifices,[4] and today I have paid my vows; (Kpł 7,11; Ps 50,14)15so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.16I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen; (Przyp 31,22; Iz 19,9)17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. (Wj 30,23; Ps 45,8)18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey; (Mt 20,11)20he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”21With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him. (Ps 12,2; Przyp 5,3; Przyp 6,24)22All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast[5]23till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life. (Kazn 9,12)24And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. (Przyp 4,1)25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,26for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng. (Sdz 16,1; Neh 13,26)27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. (Przyp 2,18; Przyp 5,5; Przyp 9,18)