Proverbs 7

1My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,● 2Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:● 3Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.● 4Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,● 5That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.● 6For I looked out of the window of my house through the lattice,● 7And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,● 8Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,● 9In the dark when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night.● 10And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: talkative and wandering,● 11Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,● 12Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.● 13And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:● 14I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.● 15Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.● 16I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.● 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.● 18Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.● 19For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.● 20He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.● 21She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.● 22Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,● 23Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.● 24Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.● 25Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.● 26For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.● 27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.●