Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within yourself.
2 Keep my commands and live and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.
3 Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
5 in order to keep yourself from the adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her smooth words.
6 At the window of my house I was looking out through the lattice.
7 I looked at the naive people, and I noticed among the young men a youth who had no sense.
8 That young man passed down the street near her corner, and he went toward her house.
9 It was twilight, in the evening of the day, at the time of night and darkness.
10 There a woman met him, dressed like a prostitute, with a false heart.
11 She was loud and wayward; her feet did not stay at home.
12 Now in the streets, then in the market place, and at every corner she waited in ambush.
13 So she grabbed him and kissed him, with a strong face she said to him,
14 “I made my peace offering today, I paid my vows,
15 so came I out to meet you, to eagerly seek your face, and I have found you.
16 I have spread coverings on my bed, colored linens from Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us take great pleasure in acts of love.
19 For my husband is not at his house; he has gone on a long journey.
20 He took a bag of money with him; he will return on the day of the full moon.”
21 With much talk she turned him; with her smooth lips she misled him.
22 He went after her suddenly like an ox going to slaughter, like a deer caught in a trap,
23 until an arrow pierces through its liver. He was like a bird rushing into a snare. He did not know that it would cost his life.
24 Now, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25 May your heart not turn aside onto her paths; do not be led astray onto her paths.
26 She has caused many people to fall down pierced; her dead victims are very many.
27 Her house is on the paths to Sheol; they go down to the dark bedrooms 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