Proverbs 7
1 [My] son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. [My] son, honor the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:
My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
2 keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
3 And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart.
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4 Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
5 that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
6 For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
9 when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
10 and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
11 And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
12 For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
13 Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
14 I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
15 therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; [and] I have found you.
Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
16 I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18 Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
19 For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
20 having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
22 And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
23 and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
24 Now then, [my] son, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways:
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
26 for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
