Proverbs 7

1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.DBY — Proverbs 7:1

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.DBY — Proverbs 7:2

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.DBY — Proverbs 7:3

4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:DBY — Proverbs 7:4

5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.DBY — Proverbs 7:5

6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,DBY — Proverbs 7:6

7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,DBY — Proverbs 7:7

8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,DBY — Proverbs 7:8

9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.DBY — Proverbs 7:9

10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.DBY — Proverbs 7:10

11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:DBY — Proverbs 7:11

12 now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner.DBY — Proverbs 7:12

13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,DBY — Proverbs 7:13

14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:DBY — Proverbs 7:14

15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.DBY — Proverbs 7:15

16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;DBY — Proverbs 7:16

17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.DBY — Proverbs 7:17

18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.DBY — Proverbs 7:18

19 For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;DBY — Proverbs 7:19

20 he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.DBY — Proverbs 7:20

21 With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.DBY — Proverbs 7:21

22 He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;DBY — Proverbs 7:22

23 till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.DBY — Proverbs 7:23

24 And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.DBY — Proverbs 7:24

25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:DBY — Proverbs 7:25

26 for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.DBY — Proverbs 7:26

27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.DBY — Proverbs 7:27