Proverbs 7 — KJV

7 Verse 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. ^{Verse 2} Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. ^{Verse 3} Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. ^{Verse 4} Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: ^{Verse 5} That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. ^{Verse 6} For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, ^{Verse 7} And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, ^{Verse 8} Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, ^{Verse 9} In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: ^{Verse 10} And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. ^{Verse 11} (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: ^{Verse 12} Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) ^{Verse 13} So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, ^{Verse 14} I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed 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 decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. ^{Verse 17} I have perfumed 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 loves. ^{Verse 19} For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: ^{Verse 20} He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. ^{Verse 21} With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. ^{Verse 22} He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; ^{Verse 23} Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. ^{Verse 24} Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. ^{Verse 25} Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. ^{Verse 26} For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. ^{Verse 27} Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.