American Standard Version
Proverbs, Chapter 7

   1: My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
   2: Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
   3: Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet 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 foreigner that flattereth with her words.
   6: For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
   7: And I beheld among the simple 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 middle of the night and in the darkness.
   10: And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
   11: She is clamorous and wilful; 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.
   13: So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:
   14: Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
   15: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
   16: I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
   17: I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
   18: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
   19: For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
   20: He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.
   21: With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
   22: He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
   23: Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
   24: Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
   25: Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
   26: For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
   27: Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.


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