7Proverbs 7

1My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.Select Proverbs 7:1

2Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.Select Proverbs 7:2

3Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.Select Proverbs 7:3

4Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou art .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'Select Proverbs 7:4

5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.Select Proverbs 7:5

6For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,Select Proverbs 7:6

7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,Select Proverbs 7:7

8Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step,Select Proverbs 7:8

9In the twilight--in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.Select Proverbs 7:9

10And, lo, a woman to meet him--(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,Select Proverbs 7:10

11Noisy she is , and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.Select Proverbs 7:11

12Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --Select Proverbs 7:12

13And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,Select Proverbs 7:13

14`Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows.Select Proverbs 7:14

15Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.Select Proverbs 7:15

16With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works--cotton of Egypt.Select Proverbs 7:16

17I sprinkled my bed--myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.Select Proverbs 7:17

18Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.Select Proverbs 7:18

19For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.Select Proverbs 7:19

20A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'Select Proverbs 7:20

21She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.Select Proverbs 7:21

22He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,Select Proverbs 7:22

23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.Select Proverbs 7:23

24And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.Select Proverbs 7:24

25Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,Select Proverbs 7:25

26For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.Select Proverbs 7:26

27The ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!Select Proverbs 7:27