1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. DBY — Proverbs 7:1
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye. DBY — Proverbs 7:2
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart. DBY — Proverbs 7:3
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman: DBY — Proverbs 7:4
5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words. DBY — Proverbs 7:5
6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice, DBY — Proverbs 7:6
7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding, DBY — Proverbs 7:7
8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, DBY — Proverbs 7:8
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. DBY — Proverbs 7:9
10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. DBY — Proverbs 7:10
11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house: DBY — Proverbs 7:11
12 now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner. DBY — Proverbs 7:12
13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, DBY — Proverbs 7:13
14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows: DBY — Proverbs 7:14
15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee. DBY — Proverbs 7:15
16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt; DBY — Proverbs 7:16
17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. DBY — Proverbs 7:17
18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves. DBY — Proverbs 7:18
19 For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; DBY — Proverbs 7:19
20 he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon. DBY — Proverbs 7:20
21 With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. DBY — Proverbs 7:21
22 He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool; DBY — Proverbs 7:22
23 till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life. DBY — Proverbs 7:23
24 And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. DBY — Proverbs 7:24
25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: DBY — Proverbs 7:25
26 for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong. DBY — Proverbs 7:26
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. DBY — Proverbs 7:27