Treasure my commands that are within you.
Obey my commands so that you may live.
Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.
Tie them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister."
Give the name "My relative" to understanding
in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
I was looking at gullible people
when I saw a young man without much sense among youths.
He was crossing a street near her corner
and walking toward her house
in the twilight,
in the evening,
in the dark hours of the night.
A woman with an ulterior motive meets him.
She is dressed as a prostitute.
She is loud and rebellious.
She grabs him and kisses him.
With all her seductive charms, she persuades him,
with her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
He immediately follows her
like a steer on its way to be slaughtered,
like a ram hobbling into captivity,
like a bird darting into a trap.
He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
Now sons,
listen to me.
Pay attention to the words from my mouth.
Do not let your heart be turned to her ways.
Do not wander onto her paths,
because she has brought down many victims,
and she has killed all too many.
Her home is the way to hell
and leads to the darkest vaults of death.
HEED MY WORDS
(Solomon says)
Although this advice is directed toward young men, young women, older men & women should heed it as well! Without aim or direction, an empty life is unstable, and is vulnerable to many temptations.
To be on guard against temptation, make sure your life is full of God's Word and wisdom. Read it daily, memorize it, live it out in your life!!!
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