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20 He took lots of money with him.
    He won’t be home for a couple of weeks.”

21 With all her seductive charms, she persuades him.
    With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
22 He immediately follows her
    like a steer on its way to be slaughtered,
        like a ram hobbling into captivity[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:22 Hebrew meaning of this line uncertain.

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