LEB PRO Chapter 7

Warning Against the Strange Woman

• store my commandments with you.
• 2  and my teaching like the[fn]
• 3  write them on the tablet of your heart.
• 4 [fn] “you are my sister,” and you shall call insight,[fn] “[fn]
• 5 In order to guard yourself from[fn] from the foreigner who[fn]
• 6  through my lattice, I looked down.
• 7  I observed among the youth,
• a young man lacking[fn]
• 8 [fn] her corner, and he takes the road to her house,
• 9 the day’s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.
• 10 comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute[fn] and [fn]
• 11  her feet do not stay at her house.
• 12 [fn] every corner she lies in wait.
• 13 [fn] him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,
• 14 are upon me;[fn] I completed my vows.
• 15 [fn] 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 with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
• 18 our fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love.
• 19 [fn] in his home; he has gone on a[fn]
• 20  for on the day of the full moon he will come home.”
• 21  with her smooth lips she compels him.
• 22  like an ox to the slaughter he goes,
• and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
• 23 [fn] like a bird rushing into a snare,
• but he does not know that[fn]

Reiteration of the Warning Against a Strange Woman

• 24 and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth.
• 25  do not stray into her path.
• 26  and countless[fn] are all of her killings.
• 27 [fn] are her house, descending to chambers of death.