• Proverbs 7:1

    My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

  • Proverbs 7:2

    Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  • Proverbs 7:3

    Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

  • Proverbs 7:4

    Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

  • Proverbs 7:5

    That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

  • Proverbs 7:6

    For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  • Proverbs 7:7

    And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths,a a young man void of understanding,

  • Proverbs 7:8

    Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

  • Proverbs 7:9

    In the twilight, in the evening,b in the black and dark night:

  • Proverbs 7:10

    And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

  • Proverbs 7:11

    (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

  • Proverbs 7:12

    Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

  • Proverbs 7:13

    So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

  • Proverbs 7:14

    I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

  • Proverbs 7:15

    Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

  • Proverbs 7:16

    I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

  • Proverbs 7:17

    I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  • Proverbs 7:18

    Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

  • Proverbs 7:19

    For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

  • Proverbs 7:20

    He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

  • Proverbs 7:21

    With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

  • Proverbs 7:22

    He goeth after her straightway,c as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  • Proverbs 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.

  • Proverbs 7:24

    Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

  • Proverbs 7:25

    Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

  • Proverbs 7:26

    For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

  • Proverbs 7:27

    Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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