Geneva1599 - Proverbs - 7

7:1  My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.

7:2  Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.

7:3  Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

7:4  Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,

7:5  That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

7:6  As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

7:7  And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

7:8  Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

7:9  In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

7:10  And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

7:11  (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

7:12  Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

7:13  So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

7:14  I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.

7:15  Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

7:16  I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

7:17  I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

7:18  Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

7:19  For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.

7:20  He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.

7:21  Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.

7:22  And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,

7:23  Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.

7:24  Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.

7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.

7:26  For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.

7:27  Her house is the way vnto ye graue, which goeth downe to the chambers of death.