NHEBME - Proverbs - 7

7:1  My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

7:2  Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

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

7:4  Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

7:5  that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

7:7  I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

7:8  passing through the street near her corner, 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  Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

7:11  She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.

7:12  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking 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. This day I have paid my vows.

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

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's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

7:19  For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on 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 persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

7:22  He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

7:23  Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.

7:24  Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

7:25  Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,

7:26  for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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