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