Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commands within you.

2 Guard my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eyes.

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call out to understanding, “Kinsman,”

5 to guard you from the strange woman, from a foreign woman who has made smooth her words.

6 For at the window of my house I have looked through my lattice,

7 and I have looked among the simple, and discerned among the sons a young man lacking heart,

8 passing by on the street near her corner, and the way of her house he steps in—

9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the pupil of night and darkness.

10 And behold, a woman to meet him, in the garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.

11 She is roaring and rebellious; in her house her feet do not dwell.

12 Once in the street, once in the open squares, and beside every corner she lies in wait.