Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My son, obey my words, and treasure my commands.

2 Keep my commands and live, and guard my instructions as you would the pupil of your eye.

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

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your relative.

5 She will keep you from a forbidden woman, a wayward woman with her flattering talk.

6 At the window of my house I looked through my lattice.

7 I saw among the inexperienced, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking sense.

8 Crossing the street near her corner, he strolled down the road to her house

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

10 A woman came to meet him dressed like a prostitute, having a hidden agenda.

11 She is loud and defiant; her feet do not stay at home.

12 Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.