7Proverbs 7

CHAP. VII. / 1 Solomon perswadeth to a sincere and kind familiaritie with wisedome. 6 In an example of his owne experience, he sheweth 10 the cunning of an whore, 22 And the desperate simplicitie of a

1My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.Select Proverbs 7:1

2Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.Select Proverbs 7:2

3Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.Select Proverbs 7:3

4Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinsewoman,Select Proverbs 7:4

5That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.Select Proverbs 7:5

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

7And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,Select Proverbs 7:7

8Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,Select Proverbs 7:8

9In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:Select Proverbs 7:9

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

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

12Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)Select Proverbs 7:12

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

14I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.Select Proverbs 7:14

15Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.Select Proverbs 7:15

16I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.Select Proverbs 7:16

17I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.Select Proverbs 7:17

18Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.Select Proverbs 7:18

19For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.Select Proverbs 7:19

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

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

22He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks,Select Proverbs 7:22

23Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.Select Proverbs 7:23

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

25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.Select Proverbs 7:25

26For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her.Select Proverbs 7:26

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