Proverbs 7:1-12 ▼

1 My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:

2 keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

3 And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

4 Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

5 that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

6 For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening,

9 when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:

10 and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

11 And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.

12 For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.