Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.

2 Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.

3 Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call prudence your friend.

5 So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.

6 For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice,

7 and I see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth,

8 who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.

9 He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night.

10 And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling,

11 unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,

12 now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.