Proverbs 7 - American Standard Version 2015

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

² Keep my commandments and live;\par\tab And my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers;\par\tab Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;\par\tab And call understanding {\i thy} kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman,\par\tab From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

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

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones,\par\tab I discerned among the youths,\par\tab A young man void of understanding,

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

⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day,\par\tab In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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

¹¹ (She is clamorous and wilful;\par\tab Her feet abide not in her house:

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

¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him,\par\tab {\i And} with an impudent face she said unto him:

¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me;\par\tab This day have I paid my vows.

¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meet thee,\par\tab Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

¹⁶ I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,\par\tab With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed\par\tab With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;\par\tab Let us solace ourselves with loves.

¹⁹ For the man is not at home;\par\tab He is gone a long journey:

²⁰ He hath taken a bag of money with him;\par\tab He will come home at the full moon.

²¹ With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield;\par\tab With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

²² He goeth after her straightway,\par\tab As an ox goeth to the slaughter,\par\tab Or as {\i one in} fetters to the correction of the fool;

²³ Till an arrow strike through his liver;\par\tab As a bird hasteth to the snare,\par\tab And knoweth not that it is for his life.\par

²⁴ Now therefore, {\i my} sons, hearken unto me,\par\tab And attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵ Let not thy heart decline to her ways;\par\tab Go not astray in her paths.

²⁶ For she hath cast down many wounded:\par\tab Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol,\par\tab Going down to the chambers of death.\par