Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

2 Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of thine eye.

3 Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the table of thy heart.

4 Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', And call understanding thy kinswoman;

5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.

6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

7 And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

8 Passing through the street near her corner, And he went the way to her house;

9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the blackness of night and the darkness.

10 And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

11 She is riotous and rebellious, Her feet abide not in her house;

12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.