Proverbs 7
7
1 My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
2 Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
3 Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call prudence your friend.
5 So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.
6 For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice,
7 and I see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth,
8 who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
9 He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night.
10 And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling,
11 unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,
12 now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.
13 And overtaking the youth, she kisses him, and with a provocative face, she flatters him, saying:
14 "I vowed sacrifices for well-being. Today I have repaid my vows.
15 Because of this, I have gone out to meet you, desiring to see you, and I have found you.
16 I have woven my bed with cords. I have strewn it with embroidered tapestries from Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloe, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.
19 For my husband is not in his house. He has gone away on a very long journey.
20 He took with him a bag of money. He will return to his house on the day of the full moon."
21 She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
22 Immediately, he follows her, like an ox being led to the sacrifice, and like a lamb acting lasciviously, and not knowing that he is being drawn foolishly into chains,
23 until the arrow pierces his liver. It is just as if a bird were to hurry into the snare. And he does not know that his actions endanger his own soul.
24 Therefore, my son, hear me now, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Do not let your mind be pulled into her ways. And do not be deceived by her paths.
26 For she has tossed aside many wounded, and some of those who were very strong have been slain by her.
27 Her household is the way to Hell, reaching even to the inner places of death.
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Proverbs 7
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1My son,
pay attention to my words.
Treasure my commands that are within you.
2Obey my commands so that you may live.
Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.
3Tie them on your fingers.
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister.”
Give the name “my relative” to understanding
5in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman,
from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
6From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
7I was looking at gullible people
when I saw a young man without much sense among youths
8He was crossing a street near her corner
and walking toward her house
9in the twilight,
in the evening,
in the dark hours of the night.
10A woman with an ulterior motive meets him.
She is dressed as a prostitute.
11She is loud and rebellious.
Her feet will not stay at home.
12One moment she is out on the street,
the next she is at the curb,
on the prowl at every corner.
13She grabs him and kisses him and brazenly says to him,
14“I have some sacrificial meat.
Today I kept my vows.
15That’s why I came to meet you.
Eagerly, I looked for you,
and I’ve found you.
16I’ve made my bed,
with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
17I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning.
Let’s enjoy making love,
19because my husband’s not home.
He has gone on a long trip.
20He took lots of money with him.
He won’t be home for a couple of weeks.”
21With all her seductive charms, she persuades him.
With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
22He immediately follows her
like a steer on its way to be slaughtered,
like a ram hobbling into captivity
23until an arrow pierces his heart,
like a bird darting into a trap.
He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
24Now, sons,
listen to me.
Pay attention to the words from my mouth.
25Do not let your heart be turned to her ways.
Do not wander onto her paths,
26because she has brought down many victims,
and she has killed all too many.
27Her home is the way to hell
and leads to the darkest vaults of death.
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