Proverbs 7:1-15 ▼

1 My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you.

2 Keep my commands, and live, || And my law as the pupil of your eye.

3 Bind them on your fingers, || Write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”

5 To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.

6 For at a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement,

7 And I see among the simple ones, || I discern among the sons, || A young man lacking understanding,

8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, || And the way [to] her house he steps,

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

10 And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,

11 She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.

12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, || And she lies in wait near every corner)—

13 And she laid hold on him and kissed him, || She has hardened her face and says to him,

14 “Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, || Today I have completed my vows.

15 Therefore I have come forth to meet you, || To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.