Proverbs 7 — GNB

7Verse 1My son, keep my words, And treasure up my commandments with thee!^{Verse 2}Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!^{Verse 3}Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the tablet of thy heart!^{Verse 4}Say unto wisdom, “Thou art my sister!” And call understanding thy near acquaintance;^{Verse 5}That they may keep thee from the wife of another, From the stranger, that useth smooth words.^{Verse 6}For through the window of my house, Through the lattice I was looking forth,^{Verse 7}And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding.^{Verse 8}He was passing through the street near her corner, And was going the way to her house,^{Verse 9}At twilight, in the evening, At midnight, yea, in the thick darkness.^{Verse 10}And, behold, a woman met him, In the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart,—^{Verse 11}One noisy and unruly, Whose feet abide not in her house;^{Verse 12}Who is now in the streets, now in the broad places, And lurketh near every corner.^{Verse 13}She caught hold of him and kissed him, And with a shameless face said to him,^{Verse 14}“Thank-offerings have been upon me, And this day have I performed my vows;^{Verse 15}Therefore came I forth to meet thee,—Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee!^{Verse 16}I have spread my bed with coverlets, With tapestry of the thread of Egypt.^{Verse 17}I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.^{Verse 18}Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with caresses.^{Verse 19}For the good-man is not at home; He is gone a long journey;^{Verse 20}He hath taken a purse of money with him; At the day of the full moon he will return.”^{Verse 21}By her much fair speech she seduced him; By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.^{Verse 22}He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the chastisement of the fool,^{Verse 23}Till an arrow strike through his liver;—As a bird hasteneth into the snare, And knoweth not that it is laid for its life.^{Verse 24}Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me, And attend to the words of my mouth!^{Verse 25}Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways; Go not astray in her paths!^{Verse 26}For many are the wounded which she hath cast down; Yea, countless is the number of those slain by her.^{Verse 27}Her house is the way to the under-world, Leading down to the chambers of death.