Proverbs Chapter 7 Back Next{7:1} My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
{7:2} Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
{7:3} Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your
heart.
{7:4} Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
{7:5} that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the
foreigner who flatters with her words.
{7:6} For at the window of my house, I looked out through my
lattice.
{7:7} I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
{7:8} passing through the street near her
corner, he went the way to her house,
{7:9} in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the
darkness.
{7:10} Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
{7:11} She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
{7:12} Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
{7:13} So she caught him, and
kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
{7:14} "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
{7:15} Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
{7:16} I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of
Egypt.
{7:17} I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and
cinnamon.
{7:18} Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
{7:19} For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
{7:20} He has taken a
bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
{7:21} With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
{7:22} He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
{7:23} Until an arrow strikes through his
liver, as a
bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
{7:24} Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
{7:25} Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,
{7:26} for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty
army.
{7:27} Her house is the way to
Sheol, going down to the rooms of
death.
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