Proverbs 7

7 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

^2 ^Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. [the law]

2Guard my commands and live, And my Torah as the apple of your eye.

^3 ^Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

^4 ^Say to wisdom, My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, Kinswoman!'

^5 ^To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

^6 ^For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

^7 ^And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

^8 ^Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,

^9 ^In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

^10 ^And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

^11 ^Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

^12 ^Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

^13 ^And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

^14 `Sacrifices opeace-offeringsf [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.

^15 ^Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

^16 [With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.

^17 ^I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

^18 ^Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

^19 ^For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

^20 ^A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

^21 ^She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

^22 ^He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

^23 ^Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.

^24 ^And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

^25 ^Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

^26 ^For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.

^27 ^The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!