Proverbs 7:1-13 ▼

1 My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.

2 Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.

3 Bind them on your forearm; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, |You are my sister,| and call understanding a close relative,

5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.

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

7 and I saw among the naive--I discerned among the youths--a young man who lacked wisdom.

8 He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to her house

9 in the twilight, the evening, in the dark of the night.

10 Suddenly a woman came out to meet him! She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.

11 (She is loud and rebellious, she does not remain at home--

12 at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression she said to him,