Proverbs 7 — YLT

7Verse 1My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.^{Verse 2}Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.^{Verse 3}Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.^{Verse 4}Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'^{Verse 5}To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.^{Verse 6}For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,^{Verse 7}And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,^{Verse 8}Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,^{Verse 9}In the twilight — in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.^{Verse 10}And, lo, a woman to meet him — (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,^{Verse 11}Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.^{Verse 12}Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —^{Verse 13}And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,^{Verse 14}'Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.^{Verse 15}Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.^{Verse 16}[With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works — cotton of Egypt.^{Verse 17}I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.^{Verse 18}Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.^{Verse 19}For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.^{Verse 20}A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'^{Verse 21}She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.^{Verse 22}He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,^{Verse 23}Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.^{Verse 24}And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.^{Verse 25}Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,^{Verse 26}For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.^{Verse 27}The ways of Sheol — her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!