4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman:
5. that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
6. For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
7. and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, 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 of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10. And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11. She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12. now without, now in the broadways, --and she lieth in wait at every corner.
13. And 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 paid my vows:
15. therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
16. I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
17. I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.