6My child, if you have given your pledge to your neighbor,
2you are snared by the utterance of your lips,
3So do this, my child, and save yourself,
4Give your eyes no sleep
5save yourself like a gazelle from the hunter,
7Without having any chief
8it prepares its food in summer,
9How long will you lie there, O lazybones?
10A little sleep, a little slumber,
11and poverty will come upon you like a robber,
13winking the eyes, shuffling the feet,
14with perverted mind devising evil,
15on such a one calamity will descend suddenly;
17haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
18a heart that devises wicked plans,
19a lying witness who testifies falsely,
21Bind them upon your heart always;
22When you walk, they
23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
24to preserve you from the wife of another,
25Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
26for a prostitutes fee is only a loaf of bread,
27Can fire be carried in the bosom
28Or can one walk on hot coals
29So is he who sleeps with his neighbors wife;
30Thieves are not despised who steal only
31Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold;
32But he who commits adultery has no sense;
33He will get wounds and dishonor,
34For jealousy arouses a husbands fury,
35He will accept no compensation,
2keep my commandments and live,
3bind them on your fingers,
4Say to wisdom, You are my sister,
5that they may keep you from the loose
7and I saw among the simple ones,
8passing along the street near her corner,
9in the twilight, in the evening,
11She is loud and wayward;
12now in the street, now in the squares,
13She seizes him and kisses him,
14I had to offer sacrifices,
15so now I have come out to meet you,
16I have decked my couch with coverings,
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
18Come, let us take our fill of love until morning;
19For my husband is not at home;
20He took a bag of money with him;
22Right away he follows her,
or bounds like a stag toward the trap
23until an arrow pierces its entrails.
He is like a bird rushing into a snare,
25Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways;
26for many are those she has laid low,
27Her house is the way to Sheol,
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