Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;

2 keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

3 bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,

5 that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

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

7 and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,

8 passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

9 in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

10 Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.

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

12 now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.