AFV2020 - Proverbs - 7

7:1  My son, keep my words and store up my commandments within you.

7:2  Keep my commandments and live; and keep my law as the apple of your eye.

7:3  Bind them upon your fingers; write them upon the tablet of your heart.

7:4  Say to wisdom, "You are my sister;" and call understanding your kinsman,

7:5  So that they may keep you from the wanton woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

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

7:7  And I saw among the simple ones, among the youths, a young man with no understanding,

7:8  Passing through the street near her corner. And he went the way to her house

7:9  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night.

7:10  And, behold, there a woman met him, with the attire of a harlot and a wily heart.

7:11  She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay in her house;

7:12  Now she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

7:13  And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him,

7:14  "I have peace offerings with me; today I have paid my vows.

7:15  Therefore I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.

7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with fine linen of Egypt.

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

7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us delight ourselves with caresses,

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

7:20  He has taken a bag of silver with him and will come home on the day of the full moon."

7:21  With much alluring, seductive speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she induced him.

7:22  He goes after her immediately, like an ox goes to the slaughter, or like a fool to the correction of the stocks

7:23  Until a dart strikes through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare and does not know that it will cost him his life.

7:24  Hearken unto me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

7:25  Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths,

7:26  For she has cast down many wounded; yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

7:27  Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.