7:1 My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands within your own keeping.
7:2 Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
7:3 Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.
7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding a close relative,
7:5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
7:6 For at the window of my house through my window-lattice I looked out
7:7 and I saw among the naive, I discerned among the youths, a young man who lacked wisdom.
7:8 He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house
7:9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.
7:10 All of a sudden a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.
7:11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home —
7:12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)
7:13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,
7:14 “I have fresh meat at home; today I have fulfilled my vows!
7:15 That is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I found you!
7:16 I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.
7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
7:18 Come, let’s drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let’s delight ourselves with sexual intercourse.
7:19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.