Proverbs Chapter 7
7:1 | My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
7:2 | Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
7:3 | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. |
7:4 | Say unto wisdom, Thou ![]() |
7:5 | That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words. |
7:6 | For at the window of my ![]() |
7:7 | And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, |
7:8 | Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her ![]() |
7:9 | In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: |
7:10 | And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart. |
7:11 | (She [is] loud and stubborn; her ![]() ![]() |
7:12 | Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) |
7:13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, |
7:14 | [I have] peace offerings with me; this ![]() |
7:15 | Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. |
7:16 | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt. |
7:17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
7:18 | Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. |
7:19 | For the goodman [is] not at ![]() |
7:20 | He hath taken a bag of ![]() ![]() ![]() |
7:21 | With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
7:22 | He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; |
7:23 | Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life. |
7:24 | Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
7:25 | Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. |
7:26 | For she hath cast down many wounded: ![]() |
7:27 | Her ![]() ![]() ![]() |