Proverbs 7
1 My 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.
Cross-references
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- 1Pro 1:8, Luk 11:28, Rev 1:3, Rev 22:9, Pro 2:1–7, Jhn 14:23, Job 22:22, Pro 3:1
- 2Psa 17:8, 1Jn 2:3–4, Lev 18:5, Pro 4:4, Jhn 14:21, 1Jn 5:1–3, Pro 4:13, Jhn 12:49–50
- 3Deu 11:18–20, Pro 3:3, Deu 6:8–9, Jer 31:33, 2Co 3:3, Isa 30:8, Pro 6:21, Jer 17:1
- 4Pro 4:6–8, Pro 2:2–4, Sng 8:1, Job 17:14, Mat 12:49–50, Luk 11:27–28
- 5Pro 2:16, Pro 6:24, Pro 5:3
- 6Gen 26:8, Jdg 5:28, 2Sa 6:16
- 7Pro 6:32, Pro 1:22, Psa 119:130, Pro 9:16, Pro 1:4, Pro 10:13, Rom 16:18–19, Jer 4:22
- 82Ti 2:22, Pro 5:8, Jdg 16:1, Jud 1:23, 1Co 6:18, Pro 4:14–15, Pro 7:12, 2Sa 11:2–3
- 9Rom 13:12–14, Job 24:13–15, Eph 5:11, Gen 39:11, Exo 12:6
- 101Ti 2:9, 2Co 11:2–3, Isa 3:16–24, 2Ki 9:30, Jer 4:30, 2Ki 9:22, Isa 23:16, Gen 38:14–15
- 11Pro 9:13, Tit 2:5, Pro 31:10–31, 1Ti 5:13–14, Gen 18:9, Pro 25:24, Pro 27:14–15
- 12Pro 23:28, Pro 9:14, Rev 18:3, Jer 2:20, Jer 2:33, Jer 2:36, Rev 18:23, Ezk 16:31
- 13Num 25:6–8, Gen 39:12, Ezk 16:33, Ezk 2:6, Ezk 3:7–9, Gen 39:7, Num 31:16, Rev 2:20
- 14Pro 21:27, Lev 7:11, Pro 17:1, Deu 12:6–7, Jhn 18:28, Pro 15:8, 2Sa 15:7–9, 1Ki 21:9–10
- 16Isa 19:9, Ezk 27:7, 1Ki 10:28, Sng 3:7–10, Rev 2:22, Pro 31:22, Sng 1:16
- 17Psa 45:8, Isa 57:7–9, Sng 3:6, Exo 30:23, Sng 4:13–14
- 19Luk 12:45–46, Mat 20:11, Mat 24:48, Mat 24:43, Luk 12:39, Mrk 13:34–36
- 202Ch 2:4
- 21Pro 5:3, Pro 7:5, 2Ki 4:8, Psa 12:2, Luk 24:29, 2Co 5:14, Pro 6:24, Jdg 16:15–17
- 22Job 13:27, Jer 20:2, Act 16:24, Act 14:13
- 23Ecc 9:12, Pro 9:18, Pro 1:17, Num 25:8–9
- 24Pro 5:7, Pro 4:1, Gal 4:19, Pro 8:32–33, 1Jn 2:1, 1Co 4:14–15
- 25Pro 5:8, Isa 53:6, Pro 6:25, Mat 5:28, Pro 5:23, Pro 4:14–15, Psa 119:176, Pro 23:31–33
- 26Neh 13:26, 1Pe 2:11, Pro 6:33, 1Ki 11:1–2, 1Co 10:8, 2Co 12:21, Jdg 16:21, 2Sa 12:9–11
- 27Pro 9:18, Pro 5:5, Rev 22:15, Pro 2:18–19, Ecc 7:26