Proverbs 7
7
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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Proverbs 7
7
Beware of the Adulteress
1#Pr 1:8My son, keep my words,
and lay up my commandments within you.
2#Dt 32:10; Ps 17:8 Keep my commandments and live,
and my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3#Pr 3:3; 6:21 Bind them on your fingers;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding your kinswoman,
5#Pr 2:16; 6:24 that they may keep you from the immoral woman,
from the seductress who flatters with her words.
6For at the window of my house
I looked through my casement,
7#Pr 6:32; 1:22 and saw among the simple ones,
I discerned among the youths,
a young man void of understanding,
8passing through the street near her corner;
and he went the way to her house
9in the twilight, in the evening,
in the black and dark night.
10#Ge 38:14–15; 1Ti 2:9 And there a woman met him,
with the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11#Pr 9:13; Titus 2:5 She is loud and stubborn;
her feet do not abide in her house.
12#Pr 23:28; 9:14 Now she is without, now in the streets,
and lies in wait at every corner.
13#Ge 39:12 So she caught him, and kissed him;
and with an impudent face said to him:
14#Lev 7:11 “I have peace offerings with me;
this day have I paid my vows.
15Therefore I came out to meet you,
diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
16#Isa 19:9; Eze 27:7 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,
with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17#Ps 45:8 I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;
let us solace ourselves with love.
19#Mt 20:11 For my husband is not at home;
he has gone on a long journey;
20he has taken a bag of money with him,
and will come home at the day appointed.”
21#Pr 5:3; Ps 12:2 With her enticing speech she caused him to yield,
with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.
22He went after her straightway,
as an ox goes to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
23#Ecc 9:12 until a dart struck through his liver.
As a bird hastens to the snare,
he did not know that it would cost him his life.
24#Pr 5:7; 4:1 Listen to me now therefore, O children,
and attend to the words of my mouth:
25#Pr 5:8 do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
do not go astray in her paths;
26#Ne 13:26 for she has cast down many wounded,
and many strong men have been slain by her.
27#Pr 5:5; 9:18 Her house is the way to Sheol,
going down to the chambers of death.
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