Proverbs 7:6-27 - A Story Of Seduction

⁶ For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down. ⁷ And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense}, ⁸ passing on the street {at} her corner, and he takes the road [to] her house, ⁹ at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness. ¹⁰ Then behold! A woman [comes] to meet him [with the] garment of a prostitute and {a secret heart}. ¹¹ She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house. ¹² Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait. ¹³ She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him, ¹⁴ "Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] upon me; {today} I completed my vows. ¹⁵ So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you. ¹⁶ [With] coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt; ¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, let us take [our] fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love. ¹⁹ For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a {long journey}. ²⁰ The bag of money he took in his hand, for [on] the day of the full moon he will come home." ²¹ She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him. ²² He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool, ²³ until an arrow pierces his {entrails}, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that {it will cost him his life}.

²⁴ And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth. ²⁵ May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path. ²⁶ For many slain she has laid low, and countless [are] all of her killings. ²⁷ The ways of Sheol [are] her house, descending to chambers of death.