ACV - 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 thy heart.

7:4  Say to wisdom, Thou are my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman,

7:5  that they may keep thee from the interloping woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

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

7:7  and I 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 of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman attired like a harlot, and wily of heart.

7:11  She is loud and headstrong. Her feet abide not in her house.

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

7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him,

7:14  Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. I have paid my vows this day.

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

7:16  I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn 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 love.

7:19  For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey.

7:20  He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.

7:21  With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.

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

7:23  till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare. And he does not know that it is for his life.

7:24  Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

7:25  Let not thy heart decline to her ways. Go not astray in her paths.

7:26  For she has cast down many wounded. Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

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