Proverbs

⁴Say to skillful and godly Wisdom, You are my sister, and regard understanding or insight as your intimate friend– ⁵That they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adventuress who flatters with and makes smooth her words. ⁶For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice. ⁷And among the simple (empty-headed and emptyhearted) ones, I perceived among the youths a young man void of good sense, ⁸Sauntering through the street near the [loose woman's] corner; and he went the way to her house ⁹In the twilight, in the evening; night black and dense was falling [over the young man's life]. ¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman, dressed as a harlot and sly and cunning of heart.