Proverbs 7:1-10 ▼

1 My son, pay attention to my words. Treasure my commands that are within you.

2 Obey my commands so that you may live. Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.

3 Tie them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, |You are my sister.| Give the name |my relative| to understanding

5 in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.

6 From a window in my house I looked through my screen.

7 I was looking at gullible people when I saw a young man without much sense among youths.

8 He was crossing a street near her corner and walking toward her house

9 in the twilight, in the evening, in the dark hours of the night.

10 A woman with an ulterior motive meets him. She is dressed as a prostitute.