| Prov. 7:1 |
My son, keep my words, / And treasure up my commandments within you. |
| Prov. 7:2 |
Keep my commandments, and live; / And my teaching, like the apple of your eye. |
| Prov. 7:3 |
Bind them on your fingers; / Write them on the tablet of your heart. |
| Prov. 7:4 |
Say to wisdom, You are my sister, / And call understanding [your] close friend, |
| Prov. 7:5 |
That they may keep you from the strange woman, / From the adulteress who flatters with her words. |
| Prov. 7:6 |
For at the window of my house / I looked out through my lattice, |
| Prov. 7:7 |
And I saw among the simple ones, / I discerned among the youths, / A young man lacking sense, |
| Prov. 7:8 |
Passing along the street near her corner; / And he takes the way to her house, |
| Prov. 7:9 |
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, / In the deep of night and darkness. |
| Prov. 7:10 |
And there [comes] a woman to meet him, / Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart. |
| Prov. 7:11 |
She is rowdy and defiant; / Her feet do not stay at home-- |
| Prov. 7:12 |
Now in the street, now in the squares, / And at every corner she lies in wait. |
| Prov. 7:13 |
And she grabs him and kisses him; / And with an impudent face she says to him, |
| Prov. 7:14 |
I had to make offerings; / Today I have paid my vows. |
| Prov. 7:15 |
Therefore I have come out to meet you, / To earnestly seek your presence; and I have found you. |
| Prov. 7:16 |
I have decked my couch with coverings, / Colored spreads of the linen of Egypt; |
| Prov. 7:17 |
I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, / Aloes, and cinnamon. |
| Prov. 7:18 |
Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning; / Let us delight ourselves with love. |
| Prov. 7:19 |
For my husband is not at home; / He has gone on a long journey. |
| Prov. 7:20 |
He has taken the money bag with him; / He will come home at the full moon. |
| Prov. 7:21 |
With her great persuasiveness she beguiles him; / With her smooth talk she compels him. |
| Prov. 7:22 |
He goes after her immediately, / As an ox goes to the slaughter, / Or as [someone in] fetters, to the correction of the fool, |
| Prov. 7:23 |
Until an arrow pierces through his liver. / As a bird hastens to the snare, / So he does not know that this [will cost him] his life. |
| Prov. 7:24 |
And now, [my] sons, listen to me, / And pay attention to the words of my mouth. |
| Prov. 7:25 |
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; / Do not stray into her paths. |
| Prov. 7:26 |
For many are those whom she has brought down wounded, / And numerous are all who have been slain by her. |
| Prov. 7:27 |
Her house is the way to Sheol, / Going down to the chambers of death. |