Warnings about the Adulteress
My son, keep my words Pro 1:8Luk 11:28Rev 1:3Jhn 14:23Pro 2:1-7Rev 22:9Jhn 15:20Job 22:22
and treasure my commandments within you.
Keep my commandments and live; Psa 17:81Jn 2:3-4Lev 18:5Pro 4:41Jn 5:1-3Jhn 14:21Deu 32:10Isa 55:3
guard my teachings as the apple 1of your eye.
Tie them to your fingers; Deu 11:18-20Pro 3:3Deu 6:8-9Jer 31:332Co 3:3Isa 30:8Pro 6:21Jer 17:1
write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” Pro 2:2-4Pro 4:6-8Job 17:14Sng 8:1Luk 11:27-28Mat 12:49-50
and call understanding your kinsman,
that they may keep you from the adulteress, Pro 2:16Pro 6:24Pro 5:3
from the stranger with seductive words.
For at the window of my house Gen 26:8Jdg 5:282Sa 6:16
I looked through the lattice.
I saw among the simple, Pro 6:32Pro 1:22Jer 4:22Mat 15:16Pro 1:32Pro 1:4Pro 10:13Pro 8:5
I noticed among the youths,
a young man lacking judgment,
crossing the street near her corner, 1Co 6:182Sa 11:2-32Ti 2:22Jdg 16:1Jud 1:23Pro 4:14-15Pro 5:8Pro 7:12
strolling down the road to her house,
at twilight, as the day was fading Job 24:13-15Rom 13:12-14Eph 5:11Gen 39:11Exo 12:6
into the dark of the night.
Then a woman came out to meet him, 1Ti 2:92Co 11:2-3Isa 3:16-242Ki 9:30Jer 4:302Ki 9:22Gen 38:14-15Isa 23:16
with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
She is loud and defiant; Pro 9:13Tit 2:51Ti 5:13-14Pro 31:10-31Gen 18:9Pro 25:24Pro 27:14-15
her feet do not remain at home.
Now in the street, now in the squares, Pro 23:28Pro 9:14Rev 18:3Ezk 16:24-25Ezk 16:31Jer 2:20Jer 2:33Jer 2:36
she lurks at every corner.
She seizes him and kisses him; Gen 39:12Num 25:6-8Ezk 16:33Ezk 2:4Ezk 2:6Ezk 3:7-9Gen 39:7Isa 50:7
she brazenly says to him:
“I have made my peace offerings; Pro 21:27Lev 7:11Deu 12:6-7Jhn 18:28Pro 15:8Pro 17:11Ki 21:9-102Sa 15:7-9
today I have paid my vows.
So I came out to meet you;
I sought you, and I have found you.
I have decked my bed with coverings, Isa 19:9Ezk 27:71Ki 10:28Pro 31:22Rev 2:22Sng 3:7-10Sng 1:16
with colored linen from Egypt.
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, Psa 45:8Isa 57:7-9Exo 30:23Sng 3:6Sng 4:13-14
with aloes, and with cinnamon.
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning.
Let us delight in loving caresses!
For my husband is not at home; Luk 12:45-46Mat 20:11Luk 12:39Mat 24:43Mat 24:48Mrk 13:34-36
he has gone on a long journey.
He took with him a bag of money 2Ch 2:4
and will not return till the moon is full.”
With her great persuasion she entices him; Pro 5:3Pro 7:52Ki 4:8Luk 24:29Psa 12:22Co 5:14Jdg 16:15-17Pro 6:24
with her flattering lips she lures him.
He follows her on impulse, Job 13:27Act 14:13Act 16:24Jer 20:2
like an ox going to the slaughter,
like a deer bounding into a trap, 2
until an arrow pierces his liver, Ecc 9:12Pro 9:18Num 25:8-9Pro 1:17
like a bird darting into a snare—
not knowing it will cost him his life.
Now, my sons, listen to me, Pro 5:7Pro 4:11Jn 2:1Gal 4:19Pro 8:32-331Co 4:14-15
and attend to the words of my mouth.
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; Pro 5:8Isa 53:6Pro 6:25Mat 5:28Pro 23:31-33Pro 4:14-15Pro 5:23Psa 119:176
do not stray into her paths.
For she has brought many down to death; 1Pe 2:11Neh 13:261Co 10:81Ki 11:1-2Pro 6:332Co 12:212Sa 12:9-112Sa 3:27
her slain are many in number.
Her house is the road to Sheol, Pro 5:5Pro 9:18Pro 2:18-19Rev 22:15Ecc 7:26
descending to the chambers of death.