7. And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the banim, a na'ar (young man) devoid of lev [of understanding, sense],
8. Passing through the street near her corner; and he went on the derech to her bais,
9. In the twilight, at erev, in the black and dark lailah;
10. And, hinei, there met him an isha with the attire of a zonah, and crafty of lev.
11. She is loud and soreret (rebellious, defiant); her raglayim abide not in her bais;
12. Now is she without, now in the rechovot, and lurketh in wait at every pinnah (corner)--
13. So she caught hold of him, and kissed him, and with a brazen ponem said unto him,
14. I have zivkhei shelamim vowed; this yom have I payed my neder.
15. Al ken (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 a bedspread of fine linen of Mitzrayim.
17. I have perfumed my mishkav (bed) with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let us take our fill of dodim (loves) until boker; let us delight ourselves with ahavim (loves, pl. of intensity).
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;