Proverbs 7:1-10 ▼

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.