19. For the ish (man, i.e., husband) is not b'bais, he is gone a derech merachok (distant journey);
20. He hath taken a bag of kesef with him, and will come back to his bais at the appointed time.
21. By her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the smoothness of her sfatayim she seduced him.
22. He goeth after her and followeth immediately, as a shor (ox) goeth to tavach (stock yard, slaughter-house), or as the fettered to the musar of the fool;
23. Till a khetz (arrow) strike through his liver; as a tzippor hasteth to the pach (snare), and knoweth not that it is for his nefesh (life).
24. Pay heed unto me now therefore, O ye banim, and attend to the words of my peh (mouth).
25. Let not thine lev turn aside to her drakhim; go not astray in her netivot (trodden paths).
26. For she hath cast down many chalalim (wounded); indeed, many strong men have been slain by her.
27. Her bais is the drakhei Sheol, going down to the chadarim (chambers, rooms) of mavet (death). [T.N. The off-stage character here in chp 7 has been the cuckold. Because of her Ba'al affair, Hashem became the cuckold of Israel even as Hosea became the cuckold of Gomer.]