Proverbs 7 | WEB Bible Study

Proverbs 7:1 (WEB)
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

Proverbs 7:2 (WEB)
Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:3 (WEB)
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 7:4 (WEB)
Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

Proverbs 7:5 (WEB)
That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 7:6 (WEB)
For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

Proverbs 7:7 (WEB)
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 7:8 (WEB)
Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,

Proverbs 7:9 (WEB)
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Proverbs 7:10 (WEB)
Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.

Proverbs 7:11 (WEB)
She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

Proverbs 7:12 (WEB)
Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

Proverbs 7:13 (WEB)
So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

Proverbs 7:14 (WEB)
"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 7:15 (WEB)
Therefore I came out to meet you, To diligently seek your face, And I have found you.

Proverbs 7:16 (WEB)
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

Proverbs 7:17 (WEB)
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18 (WEB)
Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.

Proverbs 7:19 (WEB)
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Proverbs 7:20 (WEB)
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

Proverbs 7:21 (WEB)
With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Proverbs 7:22 (WEB)
He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose.

Proverbs 7:23 (WEB)
Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

Proverbs 7:24 (WEB)
Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25 (WEB)
Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

Proverbs 7:26 (WEB)
For she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

Proverbs 7:27 (WEB)
Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

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