# Proverbs 7 [[Prov-06|← Proverbs 06]] | [[Proverbs]] | [[Prov-08|Proverbs 08 →]] *** ###### v1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. ###### v2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. ###### v3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. ###### v4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, ###### v5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. ###### v6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. ###### v7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, ###### v8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, ###### v9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. ###### v10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. ###### v11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house. ###### v12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. ###### v13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: ###### v14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows. ###### v15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. ###### v16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. ###### v17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. ###### v18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. ###### v19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. ###### v20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon." ###### v21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. ###### v22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose. ###### v23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. ###### v24 Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. ###### v25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths, ###### v26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. ###### v27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. *** [[Prov-06|← Proverbs 06]] | [[Proverbs]] | [[Prov-08|Proverbs 08 →]]