<TITLE>Proverbs 07</TITLE><BR>Proverbs 7 <BR>1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.<BR>2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.<BR>3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.<BR>4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:<BR>5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.<BR>6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,<BR>7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,<BR>8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,<BR>9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:<BR>10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.<BR>11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:<BR>12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)<BR>13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,<BR>14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.<BR>15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.<BR>16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.<BR>17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.<BR>18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.<BR>19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:<BR>20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.<BR>21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.<BR>22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;<BR>23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.<BR>24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.<BR>25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.<BR>26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.<BR>27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.<BR><BR><BR>