Proverbs 7:1-19 ▼

1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, & hide my commandements with thee.

2 Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.

3 Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

4 Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,

5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,

9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.

10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.

11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.

12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

13 So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,

14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.

15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

16 I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.

17 I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.

19 For mine husbande is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.