Proverbs 7:1-10 ▼

1 My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].

2 Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.

3 Bind them [securely] on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to [skillful and godly] wisdom, “You are my sister,” And regard understanding and intelligent insight as your intimate friends;

5 That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.

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

7 And among the naive [the inexperienced and gullible], I saw among the youths A young man lacking [good] sense,

8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house

9 In the twilight, in the evening; In the black and dark night.

10 And there a woman met him, Dressed as a prostitute and sly and cunning of heart.