Proverbs 7:1-23 - Warning Against The Strange Woman

¹ My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee. ² Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil of thine eyes. ³ Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heart ⁴ Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding: ⁵ To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.

⁶ For in the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice, ⁷ And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart, ⁸ Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house, ⁹ In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness: ¹⁰ And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart ¹¹ She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house: ¹² One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner. ¹³ She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him, ¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows. ¹⁵ For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee. ¹⁶ With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt ¹⁷ I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon. ¹⁸ Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves. ¹⁹ For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off. ²⁰ He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon. ²¹ With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away. ²² He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish. ²³ Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.