Proverbs 7:1-27 LSV

[1] My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you. [2] Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye. [3] Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart. [4] Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!” [5] To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth. [6] For at a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement, [7] And I see among the simple ones, || I discern among the sons, || A young man lacking understanding, [8] Passing on in the street, near her corner, || And the way [to] her house he steps, [9] In the twilight—in the evening of day, || In the darkness of night and blackness. [10] And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart, [11] She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house. [12] Now in an out-place, now in broad places, || And she lies in wait near every corner)— [13] And she laid hold on him and kissed him, || She has hardened her face and says to him, [14] “Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, || Today I have completed my vows. [15] Therefore I have come forth to meet you, || To earnestly seek your face, and I find you. [16] I decked my bed [with] ornamental coverings, || Carved works—cotton of Egypt. [17] I sprinkled my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. [18] Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, || We delight ourselves in loves. [19] For the man is not in his house, || He has gone on a long journey. [20] He has taken a bag of money in his hand, || At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.” [21] She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, || She forces him with the flattery of her lips. [22] He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, || And as a chain to the discipline of a fool, [23] Until an arrow splits his liver, || As a bird has hurried to a snare, || And has not known that it [is] for its life. [24] And now, you sons, listen to me, || And give attention to sayings of my mouth. [25] Do not let your heart turn to her ways, || Do not wander in her paths, [26] For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, || And mighty [are] all her slain ones. [27] The ways of Sheol—her house, || Going down to inner chambers of death!