Proverbs

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

So he that goeth in to his neighbour"s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.