Pro 7:21-23, 26-27, 23:33-34, Ecc 7:26 | ESV | STEP | With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

Proverbs 7:21-23

21 With much seductive speech she persuades him;
with ^aher smooth talk she compels him.
22 All at once he follows her,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a stag is caught fast ^{▼▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as an anklet for the discipline of a fool}
23 till an arrow pierces its liver;
as ^ca bird rushes into a snare;
he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:26-27

26 for many a victim has she laid low,
and all her slain are ^da mighty throng.
27 Her house is ^ethe way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 23:33-34

33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart utter ^fperverse things.
34 You will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea,
like one who lies on the top of a mast. ^{▼▼Or of the rigging}

Ecclesiastes 7:26

26 And I find something more ^hbitter than death: ⁱthe woman whose heart is ^jsnares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but ^kthe sinner is taken by her.