7Proverbs 7

1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.Select Proverbs 7:1

2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.Select Proverbs 7:2

3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart.Select Proverbs 7:3

4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:Select Proverbs 7:4

5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words. ¶Select Proverbs 7:5

6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,Select Proverbs 7:6

7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,Select Proverbs 7:7

8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,Select Proverbs 7:8

9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:Select Proverbs 7:9

10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.Select Proverbs 7:10

11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:Select Proverbs 7:11

12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)Select Proverbs 7:12

13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,Select Proverbs 7:13

14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.Select Proverbs 7:14

15Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.Select Proverbs 7:15

16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.Select Proverbs 7:16

17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Select Proverbs 7:17

18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.Select Proverbs 7:18

19For the manager is not at home, he is gone a long journey:Select Proverbs 7:19

20He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.Select Proverbs 7:20

21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.Select Proverbs 7:21

22He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;Select Proverbs 7:22

23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life. ¶Select Proverbs 7:23

24Listen to me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.Select Proverbs 7:24

25Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.Select Proverbs 7:25

26For she has cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.Select Proverbs 7:26

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.Select Proverbs 7:27