Thematic Bible
Proverbs 7:1 (show verse)
My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.
Proverbs 7:2 (show verse)
Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.
Proverbs 7:3 (show verse)
Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:4 (show verse)
Say to wisdom, "you are my sister," and you shall call insight, "{intimate friend}."
Proverbs 7:5 (show verse)
[In order] to guard yourself from {an adulteress}, from the foreigner who {makes her words smooth}.
Proverbs 7:6 (show verse)
For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down.
Proverbs 7:7 (show verse)
And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking {sense},
Proverbs 7:8 (show verse)
passing on the street {at} her corner, and he takes the road [to] her house,
Proverbs 7:9 (show verse)
at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.
Proverbs 7:10 (show verse)
Then behold! A woman [comes] to meet him [with the] garment of a prostitute and {a secret heart}.
Proverbs 7:11 (show verse)
She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house.
Proverbs 7:12 (show verse)
Now in the street, now in the square, {at} every corner she lies in wait.
Proverbs 7:13 (show verse)
She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,
Proverbs 7:14 (show verse)
"Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] upon me; {today} I completed my vows.
Proverbs 7:15 (show verse)
So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.
Proverbs 7:16 (show verse)
[With] coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt;
Proverbs 7:17 (show verse)
I have perfumed my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7:18 (show verse)
Come, let us take [our] fill of love making, until the morning let us delight in love.
Proverbs 7:19 (show verse)
For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a {long journey}.
Proverbs 7:20 (show verse)
The bag of money he took in his hand, for [on] the day of the full moon he will come home."
Proverbs 7:21 (show verse)
She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.
Proverbs 7:22 (show verse)
He goes after her suddenly; like an ox to the slaughter he goes, and like a stag to the instruction of a fool,
Proverbs 7:23 (show verse)
until an arrow pierces his {entrails}, like a bird rushing into a snare, but he does not know that {it will cost him his life}.
Proverbs 7:24 (show verse)
And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the sayings of my mouth.
Proverbs 7:25 (show verse)
May your heart not turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her path.
Proverbs 7:26 (show verse)
For many slain she has laid low, and countless [are] all of her killings.
Proverbs 7:27 (show verse)
The ways of Sheol [are] her house, descending to chambers of death.