Proverbs 7:1-18 ▼

1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:

5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

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

7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

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

10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:

12 now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.

13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:

15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.

16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;

17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.