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Proverbs 7:17-22 Amplified Bible (AMP)

17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18. Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us console and delight ourselves with love.

19. For the man is not at home; he is gone on a long journey;

20. He has taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed [at the full moon].

21. With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him, with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along.

22. Suddenly he [yields and] follows her reluctantly like an ox moving to the slaughter, like one in fetters going to the correction [to be given] to a fool or like a dog enticed by food to the muzzle