{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro007.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro007.htm","text":"1\u00a0My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.\n \n2\u00a0Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.\n \n3\u00a0Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.\n \n4\u00a0Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:\n \n5\u00a0That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.\n \n6\u00a0For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,\n \n7\u00a0And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,\n \n8\u00a0Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,\n \n9\u00a0In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:\n \n10\u00a0And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.\n \n11\u00a0(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:\n \n12\u00a0Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)\n \n13\u00a0So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,\n \n14\u00a0I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.\n \n15\u00a0Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.\n \n16\u00a0I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.\n \n17\u00a0I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.\n \n18\u00a0Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.\n \n19\u00a0For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:\n \n20\u00a0He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.\n \n21\u00a0With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.\n \n22\u00a0He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;\n \n23\u00a0Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.\n \n24\u00a0Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.\n \n25\u00a0Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.\n \n26\u00a0For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.\n \n27\u00a0Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 7","type":"page"}