Proverbs 7:1-20 ▼

1 My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.

2 Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.

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

4 Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:

5 To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

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

7 And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,

8 Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,

9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness:

10 And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart.

11 She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house:

12 One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.

13 She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him,

14 Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows.

15 For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.

16 With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt.

17 I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.

18 Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves.

19 For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off.

20 He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon.