LEB - Proverbs - 7

7:1  My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.

7:2  Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like the ⌞apple of your eye⌟.

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

7:4  Say to wisdom, “you are my sister,” and you shall call insight, “⌞intimate friend⌟.”

7:5  In order to guard yourself from ⌞an adulteress⌟, from the foreigner who ⌞makes her words smooth⌟.

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

7:7  And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking ⌞sense⌟,

7:8  passing on the street ⌞at⌟ her corner, and he takes the road to her house,

7:9  at twilight, at the day’s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.

7:10  Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and ⌞a secret heart⌟.

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

7:12  Now in the street, now in the square, ⌞at⌟ every corner she lies in wait.

7:13  She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

7:14  “Sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; ⌞today⌟ I completed my vows.

7:15  So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.

7:16  With coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the 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 making, until the morning let us delight in love.

7:19  For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a ⌞long journey⌟.

7:20  The bag of money he took in his hand, for on the day of the full moon he will come home.”

7:21  She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.

7:22  He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,

7:23  until an arrow pierces his ⌞entrails⌟, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that ⌞it will cost him his life⌟.

7:24  And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth.

7:25  May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.

7:26  For many slain she has laid low, and countless are all of her killings.

7:27  The ways of Sheol are her house, descending to chambers of death.