Proverbs Chapter 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 table 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 strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth 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, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

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

{7:12} Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth 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 have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

{7:15} Therefore came I 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 goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:

{7:20} He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.

{7:21} With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

{7:22} He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

{7:23} Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

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

{7:25} Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

{7:26} For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.

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