Jubilee2000 - Proverbs - 7

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

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

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

7:4  Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister, and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:

7:5  That they may keep thee from the woman belonging to someone else, from the stranger [who] flatters with her words.

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

7:7  and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of 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, a woman met him [with] the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.

7:11  (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet do not abide in her house:

7:12  Now without, now in the streets, [she] lies in wait at every corner.)

7:13  So she caught him and kissed him [and] with an impudent face said unto him,

7:14  I had promised sacrifices of peace; today I have payed my vows.

7:15  Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], 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 solace ourselves with loves.

7:19  For the husband [is] not at home; he is gone a long journey:

7:20  He has taken a bag of money with him [and] will come home at the [appointed] feast day.

7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield; with the flattering of her lips she persuaded him.

7:22  He went after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,

7:23  until the arrow pierces through his liver. [He is] as a bird struggling in the snare and not knowing that it [is] against his own life.

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

7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.

7:26  For she has caused many to fall down dead; [yea], all the strong [men] have been slain by her.

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