Proverbs Chapter 7
1 Take my advice, son;
treasure up my commandments inside you.
2 Keep my commands so you can have a life;
guard my teachings like the pupil in your eye.
3 Tie them on your fingers;
write them on your heart.
4 Call wisdom your sister and insight your friend,
5so they can keep you away from the adulteress
that flatters with her words.
Prov 7:1-5
6 At the window of my house
I looked out through the lattice
7and saw among the naïve
a young man with no sense.
8He was going down the street near her corner
on the way to her house,
9in the evening at dusk.
During the night after dark,
10 a woman comes to meet him,
dressed like a prostitute, coy at heart.
11 She’s loud and rebellious, not content to stay home—
12now in the streets, now in the squares,
lurking at every corner.
Prov 7:6-12
13 She grabs him and kisses him,
and says to him with a brazen face,
14“It was time for me to offer peace offerings;
I paid my vows today.
15So I’ve come out to meet you,
to look for you eagerly, and I found you.
16I’ve decorated my couch with covers,
with colored linens from Egypt.
17I’ve sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come on, let’s drink our fill of love till morning;
let’s delight ourselves with love.
19My husband’s gone on a long trip;
20he’s taken a moneybag with him
and won’t be back till full moon.”
Prov 7:13-20
21 She entices him with persuasion,
And seduces him with flattery.
22 Finally he follows her like a bull to slaughter,
like a stag heading for a trap.
23An arrow pierces his liver;
like a bird swooping to a snare,
he doesn’t realize it will cost him his life.
Prov 7:21-23
24 So pay attention to what I’m saying, sons.
25 Don’t let your heart turn to its own ways
or stray into its own paths;
26doing that has thrown down so many victims
and slain them.
27 Her house lies on the road to Sheol,
that descends to the den of death.
Prov 7:24-27