7:1 ^[104] My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee:

7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye:

7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart:

7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:

7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words:

7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement:

7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding:

7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house:

7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart:

7:11 She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

7:12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner:

7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him:

7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows:

7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee:

7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt:

7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon:

7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves:

7:19 For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:

7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed:

7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him:

7:22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks:

7:23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life:

7:24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth:

7:25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:

7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her:

7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death: