The Wiles of the Harlot
My son, akeep my wordsAnd treasure my commandments within you.Prov 2:1; 6:202 aKeep my commandments and live,And my 1teaching bas the 2apple of your eye.Or lawLit 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 That they may keep you from an 1adulteress,From the foreigner who 2flatters with her words.Lit strange womanLit 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 1anaive,And discerned among the 2youthsA young man blacking 3sense,Lit simple onesLit sonsLit heartProv 1:22Prov 6:32; 9:48 Passing through the street near aher corner;And he 1takes the way to bher house,Lit stepsProv 7:12Prov 7:279 In the atwilight, in the 1evening,In the 2middle of the night and in the darkness.Lit evening of the dayLit pupil (of the eye)Job 24:1510 And behold, a woman comes to meet him,aDressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.Gen 38:14, 15; 1 Tim 2:911 She is aboisterous and rebellious,Her bfeet do not remain at home;Prov 9:131 Tim 5:13; Titus 2:512 She is now in the streets, now ain the squares,And blurks by every corner.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 “1I was due to offer apeace offerings;Today I have bpaid my vows.Lit Sacrifices of peace offerings are with meLev 7:11Lev 7:1615 “Therefore I have come out to meet you,To seek your presence 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, let us drink our fill of love until morning;Let us delight ourselves with caresses.19 “For 1my husband is not at home,He has gone on a long journey;Lit the man20 He has taken a abag of money 1with him,At the full moon he will come home.”Lit in his handGen 42:3521 With her many persuasions she entices him;With her 1aflattering lips she seduces him.Lit smoothProv 5:3; 6:2422 Suddenly he follows herAs an ox goes to the slaughter,Or as 1one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,Or as a stag goes into a trap; so some ancient versions23 Until an arrow pierces through his liver;As a abird hastens to the snare,So he does not know that it will cost him his life.Eccl 9:12
24 Now therefore, my sons, alisten to me,And pay attention to the words of my mouth.Prov 5:725 Do not let your heart aturn aside to her ways,Do not stray into her paths.Prov 5:826 For many are the 1victims she has cast down,And anumerous are all her slain.Lit mortally woundedProv 9:1827 Her ahouse is the way to Sheol,Descending to the chambers of death.Prov 2:18; 5:5; 9:18; 1 Cor 6:9, 10; Rev 22:15