Proverbs 7:1-13 ▼

1 My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands.

2 Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.

3 Strap them to your fingers and engrave them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, |You're my sister!| and call understanding your close relative,

5 so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words.

6 For from a window in my house I peered through the lattice work,

7 and I noticed among the naïve— that is, I discerned among the youths— a senseless young man.

8 Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward her house

9 at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part of the night.

10 Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him.

11 She is brazen and defiant— her feet don't remain at home.

12 Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner.

13 So she grabs hold of him and kisses him, with a brazen face she speaks to him,