LITV - Proverbs - 7

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

7:2  Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.

7:3  Tie them on your fingers; write them on 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 strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words.

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

7:7  and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,

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 darkness of night.

7:10  And, behold, a woman to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart;

7:11  she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay in her own house.

7:12  At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;

7:13  and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,

7:14  Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have paid my vows;

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

7:16  I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.

7:17  I have sprinkled 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 his house; he is going in the way, far away.

7:20  He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house.

7:21  With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

7:22  He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool,

7:23  until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

7:24  Now, then, listen to me, O sons, 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 many are the wounded she has caused to fall; and plentiful all her slain ones.

7:27  The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the rooms of death.