17I've sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18Come, let's drink our fill of love until morning. Let's enjoy making love, 19because my husband's not home. He has gone on a long trip. 20He took lots of money with him. He won't be home for a couple of weeks." 21With all her seductive charms, she persuades him. With her smooth lips, she makes him give in. 22He immediately follows her like a steer on its way to be slaughtered, like a ram hobbling into captivity 23until an arrow pierces his heart, like a bird darting into a trap. He does not realize that it will cost him his life. 24Now, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words from my mouth. 25Do not let your heart be turned to her ways. Do not wander onto her paths, 26because she has brought down many victims, and she has killed all too many. 27Her home is the way to hell and leads to the darkest vaults of death.
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