Proverbs 7

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