【Proverbs】Chapter 7 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

7:1 My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands.

7:2 Keep my commands and live, 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 Say to Wisdom, "You are my sister!" call Understanding, "Friend!"

7:5 That they may keep you from another’s wife, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

7:6 For at the window of my house, through my lattice I looked out ?

7:7 And I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the young men, a youth with no sense,

7:8 Going along the street near the corner, then walking in the direction of her house ?

7:9 In the twilight, at dusk of day, at the time of the dark of night.

7:10 And lo! the woman comes to meet him, robed like a harlot, with secret designs ?

7:11 She is fickle and unruly, in her home her feet cannot rest;

7:12 Now she is in the streets, now in the open squares, and at every corner she lurks in ambush ?

7:13 When she seizes him, she kisses him, and with an impudent look says to him:

7:14 "I owed peace offerings, and today I have fulfilled my vows;

7:15 So I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you!

7:16 With coverlets I have spread my couch, with brocaded cloths of Egyptian linen;

7:17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

7:18 "Come, let us drink our fill of love, until morning, let us feast on love!

7:19 For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;

7:20 A bag of money he took with him, not till the full moon will he return home."

7:21 She wins him over by her repeated urging, with her smooth lips she leads him astray;

7:22 He follows her stupidly, like an ox that is led to slaughter; Like a stag that minces toward the net,

7:23 till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that its life is at stake.

7:24 So now, O children, listen to me, be attentive to the words of my mouth!

7:25 Let not your heart turn to her ways, go not astray in her paths;

7:26 For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain.

7:27 Her house is made up of ways to the nether world, leading down into the chambers of death.

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