My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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 an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Now is she 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 payed 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.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
1Me ba, di me nsɛm so, na kora m'ahyɛdeɛ wo nkyɛn.Under pastoral review
2Di m'ahyɛdeɛ so, na tena ase; na me mmara sɛ w'aniwa kɛseɛ.Under pastoral review
3Kyekyere wɔn wo nsateaa ho, twerɛ wɔn w'akoma apono so.Under pastoral review
4Ka kyerɛ nyansa sɛ, Wo ne me nuabaa; na frɛ nteaseɛ w'abusuani:Under pastoral review
5Sɛdeɛ wɔbɛkora wo afiri ɔbaa hɔhoɔ ho, afiri ɔhɔhoɔ a ɔde ne nsɛm daadaa ho.Under pastoral review
6Ɛfiri sɛ me fie mpomma ano na mehwɛɛ me mfɛnsere mu,Under pastoral review
7Na mehunuu atetekwaa mu, mehyɛɛ mmeranteɛ mu nsow, aberanteɛ a nteaseɛ nni ne mu,Under pastoral review
8Ɔfaa abɔnten so bɛnee ne twɛtwɛwa so; na ɔfaa ɛkwan a ɛkɔ ne fie,Under pastoral review
9Anwummerɛ, onwunu berɛ mu, anadwo tumm ne esum mu:Under pastoral review
10Na hwɛ, ɔbaa bi a ɔhyɛ adwamanfoɔ ntadeɛ, na ɔwɔ akoma anifire hyiaa no.Under pastoral review
11(Ɔyɛ dede na ɔyɛ asoɔden; ne nan ntena ne fie:Under pastoral review
12Seesei ɔwɔ abɔnten, seesei ɔwɔ mmɔntene so, na ɔtɛn twɛtwɛwa biara so.)Under pastoral review
13Enti ɔsɔɔ ne mu, na ɔfee n'ano, na ɔde anim a aniwuo nni mu ka kyerɛɛ no sɛ,Under pastoral review
14Mewɔ asomdwoeɛ afɔrebɔdeɛ; ɛnnɛ na matua me bɔhyɛ.Under pastoral review
15Ɛno enti mebaeɛ sɛ merebɛhyia wo, sɛ mɛhwehwɛ w'anim nsiyɛ mu, na mahunu wo.Under pastoral review
16Mede nkatasoɔ a wɔadi mu adwini asiesie me mpa, ne Misraim serekye pa.Under pastoral review
17Mede mur, ne akyenkyen, ne sinamon apete me mpa so.Under pastoral review
18Bra, ma yɛn nnidi dɔ mu nkɔsi anɔpa: ma yɛnnye yɛn ani ɔdɔ mu.Under pastoral review
19Ɛfiri sɛ efiewura no nni fie, wakɔ akwantuo tenten:Under pastoral review
20Wafa sika kotokuo akɔ, na ɔbɛba fie da a wɔahyɛ no.Under pastoral review
21Ɔde ne kasa dɛdɛ bebree maa ɔpenee so, ɔde n'anofafa nnaadaa hyɛɛ no.Under pastoral review
22Ɔdi n'akyi ntɛm ara, sɛdeɛ nantwie kɔ kumbea, anaa sɛ ɔkwasea kɔ nkyekyereeɛ asotwe mu;Under pastoral review
23Kɔsi sɛ bɛmma bɛwɔ ne berɛboɔ mu; sɛ anomaa a ɔtu mmirika kɔ afidie mu, na ɔnnim sɛ ɛtia ne nkwa.Under pastoral review
24Enti afei montie me, mo mma, na monyɛ aso m'anom nsɛm ho.Under pastoral review
25Mma w'akoma nnane nkɔ n'akwan so, nyera wɔ n'atempɔn so.Under pastoral review
26Ɛfiri sɛ wabubu bebree ahwe fam apirapira: aane, ahoɔdenfoɔ pii na wakum wɔn.Under pastoral review
27Ne fie yɛ ɛkwan a ɛkɔ damena, ɛsiane kɔ owuo adan mu.Under pastoral review