Proverbs 7 KJV

M¹🔗y 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 table of thine 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 stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶🔗 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷🔗 And 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, in the black and dark night:

¹⁰🔗 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

¹¹🔗 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

¹²🔗 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

¹³🔗 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

¹⁴🔗 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

¹⁵🔗 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

¹⁶🔗 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen 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 goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

²⁰🔗 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

²¹🔗 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

²²🔗 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

²³🔗 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²⁴🔗 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵🔗 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

²⁶🔗 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

²⁷🔗 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.