Proverbs 7 — ASVBT

7Verse 1My son, keep my words,
And lay up my commandments with thee.
^{Verse 2}Keep my commandments and live;
And my law as the apple of thine eye.
^{Verse 3}Bind them upon thy fingers;
Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
^{Verse 4}Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;
And call understanding thy kinswoman:
^{Verse 5}That they may keep thee from the strange woman,
From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
^{Verse 6}For at the window of my house
I looked forth through my lattice;
^{Verse 7}And I beheld among the simple ones,
I discerned among the youths,
A young man void of understanding,
^{Verse 8}Passing through the street near her corner;
And he went the way to her house,
^{Verse 9}In the twilight, in the evening of the day,
In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
^{Verse 10}And, behold, there met him a woman
With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
^{Verse 11}(She is clamorous and willful;
Her feet abide not in her house:
^{Verse 12}Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,
And lieth in wait at every corner.)
^{Verse 13}So she caught him, and kissed him,
And with an impudent face she said unto him:
^{Verse 14}Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me;
This day have I paid my vows.
^{Verse 15}Therefore came I forth to meet thee,
Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
^{Verse 16}I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
^{Verse 17}I have perfumed my bed
With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
^{Verse 18}Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;
Let us solace ourselves with loves.
^{Verse 19}For the man is not at home;
He is gone a long journey:
^{Verse 20}He hath taken a bag of money with him;
He will come home at the full moon.
^{Verse 21}With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield;
With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
^{Verse 22}He goeth after her straightaway,
As an ox goeth to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;
^{Verse 23}Till an arrow strike through his liver;
As a bird hasteth to the snare,
And knoweth not that it is for his life.^{Verse 24}Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,
And attend to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 25}Let not thy heart decline to her ways;
Go not astray in her paths.
^{Verse 26}For she hath cast down many wounded:
Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
^{Verse 27}Her house is the way to Sheol,
Going down to the chambers of death.