33. A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be
wiped away.
34. For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in
the day of vengeance.
35. He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content,
though thou givest many gifts.
PROV. VII, 6. For at the window of my house I looked through my
casement,
7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a
young man void of understanding,
8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to
her house,
9. In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10. And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot,
and subtile of heart.
11. (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12. Now she is without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.)
13. So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said
unto him,
14. I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
15. Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face,
and I have found thee.
16. I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
solace ourselves with loves.
19. For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20. He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the
day appointed.
21. With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
flattering of her lips she forced him.
22. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23. Till a dart strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
PROV. IX, 13. A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth
nothing.
14. For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high
places of the city,
15. To call passengers who go right on their ways:
16. Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
17. Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
18. But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.
PROV. XXII, 14. The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is
abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein.
PROV. XXIII, 27. For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a
narrow pit.
28. She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the
transgressors among men.
PROV. XXXI, 3. Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that
which destroyeth kings.
ECCL. VII, 26. And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose
heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God
shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
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