< Proverbs 7 >

1 O son my keep words my and commandments my you will treasure with you. 2 Keep commandments my and live and instruction my like [the] pupil of eyes your. 3 Bind them on fingers your write them on [the] tablet of heart your. 4 Say to wisdom [are] sister my you and a relative to discernment you will call. 5 To keep you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth. 6 For at [the] window of house my through lattice my I looked down. 7 And I saw among the naive people I observed among the sons a youth lacking of heart. 8 [who] was passing by In the street beside corner her and [the] direction of house her he strode. 9 At twilight in [the] evening of [the] day in [the] middle of [the] night and darkness. 10 And there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart. 11 [is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her. 12 A time - in the street a time in the open places and beside every corner she lies in wait. 13 And she takes hold on him and she kisses him she has made firm face her and she said to him. 14 Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] on me this day I have paid vows my. 15 There-fore I have come out to meet you to seek face your and I have found you. 16 Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt. 17 I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon. 18 Come! let us take our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with love. 19 For not the husband [is] in house his he has gone on a journey from a distance. 20 [the] bag of Money he has taken in hand his to [the] day of the full moon he will come house his. 21 She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels him. 22 [he is] walking Behind her suddenly like an ox [which] to [the] slaughter it goes and like an anklet to [the] chastening of a fool. 23 Until it will pierce an arrow liver his as hurries a bird into a trap and not he knows that [is] for life his it. 24 And therefore O children listen to me and be attentive to [the] words of mouth my. 25 May not it turn aside to ways her heart your may not it go astray in pathways her. 26 For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her. 27 [is] [the] ways of Sheol house her [which] go down to [the] chambers of death. (Sheol h7585)

< Proverbs 7 >