The Adulteress’ Trap
My son, akeep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.Prov 2:1; 6:202 aKeep my commandments and live,And my 1law bas the 2apple of your eye.Or instructionLit pupilProv 4:4Deut 32:10; Ps 17:8; Zech 2:83 aBind them on your fingers;bWrite them on the tablet of your heart.Deut 6:8; 11:18; Prov 6:21Prov 3:34 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”And call understanding your intimate friend;5 In order to keep you from the strange woman,From the foreign woman who 1flatters with her words.Lit is smooth
6 For aat the window of my houseI looked out bthrough my lattice,Judg 5:28Song 2:97 And I saw among the asimple,And discerned among the 1sonsA young man blacking a heart of wisdom,Or youthsProv 1:22Prov 6:32; 9:48 Passing through the street near aher corner;And he strides along the way to bher house,Prov 7:12Prov 7:279 In the atwilight, in the evening of that day,In the 1middle of the night, and in the thick darkness.Lit pupil (of the eye)Job 24:1510 And behold, a woman comes to meet him,aDressed as a harlot and 1cunning of heart.Lit guardedGen 38:14, 15; 1 Tim 2:911 She is aboisterous and rebellious,Her bfeet do not dwell at home;Prov 9:131 Tim 5:13; Titus 2:512 Stepping in the streets, stepping ain the squares,And near every corner she blies in wait.Prov 9:14Prov 23:2813 So she seizes him and kisses him1And with a abrazen face she says to him:Lit She makes bold her face and saysProv 21:2914 “The sacrifices of apeace offerings are with me;Today I bpaid my vows.Lev 7:11Lev 7:1615 “Therefore I have come out to meet you,To seek your face earnestly, and I have found you.16 “I have spread my couch with acoverings,With colored blinens of Egypt.Prov 31:22Is 19:9; Ezek 27:717 “I have sprinkled my bedWith amyrrh, aloes, and bcinnamon.Ps 45:8Ex 30:2318 “Come, then, let us drink our fill as lovers until morning;Let us delight ourselves with the pleasures of love.19 “For 1my husband is not at home,He has gone on a journey far away;Lit the man20 He took a abag of silver in his hand,On the day of the full moon he will come home.”Gen 42:3521 With her abundant 1persuasions she entices him;With her aflattering lips she drives him to herself.Lit learningProv 5:3; 6:2422 He suddenly follows herAs an ox goes to the slaughter,Or 1as one in fetters to the discipline of an ignorant fool,Some ancient versions as a stag goes into a trap23 Until an arrow pierces through his liver;As a abird hastens to the snare,And he does not know that it will cost him his 1soul.Or lifeEccl 9:12
24 So now, my sons, alisten to me,And pay attention to the words of my mouth.Prov 5:725 Do not let your heart ago astray into her ways,Do not wander into her pathways.Prov 5:826 For many are the slain whom she has cast down,And anumerous are all those killed by her.Prov 9:1827 The ways to Sheol are in her ahouse,Descending to the chambers of death.Prov 2:18; 5:5; 9:18; 1 Cor 6:9, 10; Rev 22:15