Proverbs 7

1My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.● 2Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;● 3Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.● 4Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:● 5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.● 6Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,● 7I saw among the young men one without sense,● 8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,● 9At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.● 10And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;● 11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.● 12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.● 13So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:● 14I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.● 15So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.● 16My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;● 17I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.● 18Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.● 19For the master of the house is away on a long journey:● 20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.● 21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.● 22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;● 23Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.● 24So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;● 25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.● 26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.● 27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.●