1 My son, heed my advice,

and guard my instructions as you would [MET] guard a treasure.

2 Obey my commands,

and as a result you will live a good life.

Consider the things that I teach you to be very precious;

guard them, just like you protect your eyes.

3 Tie my commands around your fingers in order that they will remind you to obey them.

Always keep them in mind [MET].

4 Love wisdom like you love your sister.

Understand what is wise,

and let that be as dear to you as members of your family.

5 If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not sleep with an immoral woman;

you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says.

6 One day, I was standing at the window inside my house,

and I looked outside.

7 I saw some young men who did not have good sense.

Among them was a man who was very foolish.

8 He crossed the street near the house of an immoral woman.

He was walking along the path toward her house

9 at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU].

10 Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him.

She was dressed ◄seductively/like a prostitute►, wanting to persuade him to sleep with her.

11 She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious;

she [SYN] never stayed at home.

12 She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets,

waiting to trap some man.

13 When she saw that young man, she put her arms around him and kissed him.

Then without being a bit ashamed, she said,

14 "I have some meat that is left over from a sacrifice that I made today to maintain fellowship with Yahweh;

I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do.

15 And now I have come out to meet/see you.

I was searching for you, and now I have found you!

16 I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from very fine linen that were imported {people brought} from Egypt.

17 I have sprinkled sweet-smelling perfumes on my bed—

myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

18 Come with me; let us enjoy having sex until tomorrow morning.

Let’s enjoy making love.

19 My husband is not at home;

he has gone away on a long journey.

20 He is carrying a wallet filled with money,

and he will not return until the middle of this month."

21 So she persuaded him by her enticing/tempting words.

She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.

22 And he went with her immediately,

like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered,

or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap,

23 where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver and kills it.

He was like a bird that flew into a trap.

He did not know that ◄it would cost him his life/he would die as a result►.

24 My son, listen to what I say;

pay careful attention to my words.

25 Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that.

Do not go where she goes.

26 She has caused many men to be ruined;

truly, no one can count the men she has killed.

27 The road to her house is the road to the grave.

Those who enter her bedroom [PRS] will die as a result.