English Bible
Proverbs 7
Big screen- 1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
- 2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of yours eye.
- 3Bind them upon your fingers, write them upon the table of yours heart.
- 4Say unto wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
- 5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words.
- 6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
- 7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
- 8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
- 9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
- 10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
- 11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
- 12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)
- 13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an shameless face said unto him,
- 14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
- 15Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you.
- 16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
- 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
- 19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
- 20He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
- 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
- 22He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- 23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastes to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life.
- 24Hearken unto me now therefore, O all of you children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
- 25Let not yours heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
- 26For she has cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
- 27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.