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
1My son, keep my words,
And lay up my commandments with thee.
2Keep my commandments and live;
And my law as the apple of thine eye.
3Bind them upon thy fingers;
Write them upon the table of thine heart.
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;
And call understanding thy kinswoman:
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
From the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6For at the window of my house
I looked forth through my lattice;
7And I beheld 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 of the day,
In the blackness of night and the darkness.
10And, behold, there met him a woman
With the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.
11She is clamorous, and wilful;
Her feet abide not in her house:
12Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,
And lieth in wait at every corner.
13So she caught him, and kissed him,
And with an impudent face she said unto him:
14Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me;
This day have I paid my vows.
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
17I 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 loves.
19For the goodman is not at home,
He is gone a long journey:
20He hath taken a bag of money with him;
He will come home at the full moon.
21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield,
With the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.
22He goeth after her straightway,
As an ox goeth to the slaughter,
Or as fetters to the correction of the fool;
23Till an arrow strike through his liver;
As a bird hasteth to the snare,
And knoweth not that it is for his life.
24Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
And attend to the words of my mouth.
25Let not thine heart decline to her ways,
Go not astray in her paths.
26For she hath cast down many wounded:
Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
27Her house is the way to Sheol,
Going down to the chambers of death.
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