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Wisdom calls out in the streets, in the squares she raises her voice.

Verse ConceptsStreetsOutside The Houseserenitywomanhood

On a {busy corner} she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:

Verse ConceptsBusiness At The Gateway

[in order] to deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman [who] flatters [with] her sayings,

Verse ConceptsHarlotsSalvation By Other ThingsGodly WomanSexual Purity

[Of] all who go to her, none shall return, nor do they reach paths of life.

Verse ConceptsThe Paths Of The LordSinners Grasped By DeathPaths Of LifePaths

For her income is better than the income of silver, and her revenue than [that of] gold.

Verse ConceptsAlternatives To MoneyTrue GainEducation

She is a tree of life for those who seize her; those who take hold of her are considered happy.

Verse ConceptsTreesMetaphorical TreesGraspingrelaxation

Cherish her and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.

Verse ConceptsSource Of Honourhonour

For the lips of the strange woman will drip honey, and smoother than oil is her mouth.

Verse ConceptsLipsMouthsPersuasionEleganceadultry

But her end is bitter as the wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

Verse ConceptsSharpnessTwo SidedBitterness

She does not observe the path of life; her ways wander, [and] she does not know [it].

Verse ConceptsThoughtFicklenessLife By WisdomPaths Of Lifeuncertainty

Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,

Verse ConceptsLasciviousnessEvil AssociationsFar From One

[She is] a deer of love and a doe of grace; may her breasts satisfy you {always}; by her love may you be intoxicated continually.

Verse ConceptsDeersBreasts, Being AttractiveSex Within MarriageHusbands Duty To WivesDeer Etc.Loving Your WifeStaying PositiveDeerbreaststeenager

Thus, he who goes to the wife of his neighbor, any who touches her shall not go unpunished.

Verse ConceptsTouchTouching To HarmAvoid AdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual SinPunishments

[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

passing on the street {at} her corner, and he takes the road [to] her house,

Verse ConceptsSecret SinsDirection

She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

Verse ConceptsEvil KissingKissing

He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,

Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness

May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

Verse ConceptsDesires For HolinessHarlotsPeople Going Astray

For many slain she has laid low, and countless [are] all of her killings.

Verse ConceptsDealing With Many PeopleA Good Woman

Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.

Verse ConceptsSeven ThingsMetaphorical Pillars

She has slaughtered her slaughtering, mixed her wine, [and] also set her table.

Verse ConceptsAlcoholTablesMixed WineDrugs

She has sent her servant girls, she calls upon the wings of the high places of town,

"Whoever [is] simple, let him turn here." As for the one who lacks {sense}, she says to him,

Verse ConceptsWisdom And Guidance

She sits at the door of her house, upon a throne [at the] high places of town,

"Whoever is simple, may he turn here!" As for he who lacks {sense}, she says to him,

But he does not know that the dead [are] there, in the depths of Sheol [are] her guests.

Verse ConceptsGrave, TheHell, Punishment OfIgnorance Of EvilSinners Grasped By Death

For [it is] better [that] he say to you, "Ascend here," than he humble you before a noble. What your eyes have seen,

Verse ConceptsHumiliationSelf ExaltationMoving UpwardsAbasing PeopleWaiting Till Marriage

[In] restraining her, he restrains wind, and his right hand will grasp oil.

Verse Conceptsnagging

By the rebellion of a land, her rulers increase, but by a person of intelligence who knows justice, it will last.

Verse Conceptsethics, socialGovernmentCivic RighteousnessRulersWisdom, Human ImportanceUnsuitable Rulerebellionapostasy

This is the way of a woman committing adultery: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says "I have not done wrong."

Verse ConceptsAdulterersAdultery, Results OfComplacencyMouthsInsensibilityFruits Of SinNo SinPlea Of Innocenceadultry

under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Verse ConceptsConcubinesUnlovingA Good Husbandmistress

She seeks wool and flax, and she works with the diligence of {her hands}.

Verse ConceptsFlaxeagernessWoolIndustryDoing One's Work

She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food;

Verse ConceptsMerchantsSeafaringShips For TradingGood Things From Far Away

She perceives that her merchandise [is] good; her lamp does not go out in the night.

Verse ConceptsLampsProfitsActing All NightWomen WorkingWomen's RolesA Good Woman

She makes for herself coverings; her clothing [is] fine linen and purple.

Verse ConceptsClothLinenTapestriesPurple ClothesVirtuous Womansales