Proverbs 7 — KJVCP

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 table of thine 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 stranger which flattereth with her words.
^{Verse 6}For at the window of my house
I looked through my casement,
^{Verse 7}And 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,
In the black and dark night:
^{Verse 10}And behold, there met him a woman
With the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
^{Verse 11}(She is loud and stubborn;
Her feet abide not in her house:
^{Verse 12}Now is she without, now in the streets,
And lieth in wait at every corner.)
^{Verse 13}So she caught him, and kissed him,
And with an impudent face said unto him,
^{Verse 14}I have peace offerings with me;
This day have I payed 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 deckt my bed with coverings of tapestry,
With carved works, with fine linen 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 goodman is not at home,
He is gone a long journey:
^{Verse 20}He hath taken a bag of money with him,
And will come home at the day appointed.
^{Verse 21}With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,
With the flattering of her lips she forced him.
^{Verse 22}He goeth after her straightway,
As an ox goeth to the slaughter,
Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
^{Verse 23}Till a dart strike through his liver;
As a bird hasteth to the snare,
And knoweth not that it is for his life.^{Verse 24}Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,
And attend to the words of my mouth.
^{Verse 25}Let not thine heart decline to her ways,
Go not astray in her paths.
^{Verse 26}For she hath cast down many wounded:
Yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
^{Verse 27}Her house is the way to hell,
Going down to the chambers of death.