1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you. NHEB — Proverbs 7:1
2 Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. NHEB — Proverbs 7:2
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. NHEB — Proverbs 7:3
4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative, NHEB — Proverbs 7:4
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words. NHEB — Proverbs 7:5
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice. NHEB — Proverbs 7:6
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, NHEB — Proverbs 7:7
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house, NHEB — Proverbs 7:8
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness. NHEB — Proverbs 7:9
10 Look, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent. NHEB — Proverbs 7:10
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house. NHEB — Proverbs 7:11
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner. NHEB — Proverbs 7:12
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him: NHEB — Proverbs 7:13
14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows. NHEB — Proverbs 7:14
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you. NHEB — Proverbs 7:15
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. NHEB — Proverbs 7:16
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. NHEB — Proverbs 7:17
18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving. NHEB — Proverbs 7:18
19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey. NHEB — Proverbs 7:19
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon." NHEB — Proverbs 7:20
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. NHEB — Proverbs 7:21
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a stag leaping into a trap, NHEB — Proverbs 7:22
23 till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life. NHEB — Proverbs 7:23
24 Now therefore, son, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth. NHEB — Proverbs 7:24
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths, NHEB — Proverbs 7:25
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. NHEB — Proverbs 7:26
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. NHEB — Proverbs 7:27