The love of wisdom is the best preservative from being led astray by temptation. 7:1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son, 7:2. Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye: 7:3. Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart. 7:4. Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend, 7:5. That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words. 7:6. For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice, 7:7. And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man, 7:8. Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house, 7:9. In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night. 7:10. And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering, 7:11. Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home, 7:12. Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners. 7:13. And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying: 7:14. I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows. 7:15. Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee. 7:16. I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt. 7:17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 7:18. Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear. 7:19. For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey. 7:20. He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon. 7:21. She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips. 7:22. Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds, 7:23. Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger. 7:24. Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth. 7:25. Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths. 7:26. For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her. 7:27. Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death. Proverbs Chapter 8 The preaching of wisdom. Her excellence. 8:1. Doth not wisdom cry aloud, and prudence put forth her voice? 8:2. Standing in the top of the highest places by the way, in the midst of the paths, 8:3. Beside the gates of the city, in the very doors she speaketh, saying: 8:4. O ye men, to you I call, and my voice is to the sons of men. 8:5. O little ones understand subtlety, and ye unwise, take notice. 8:6. Hear, for I will speak of great things: and my lips shall be opened to preach right things.