1833 Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB)

Proverbs 7

1 Solomon persuadeth to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom. 6 In an example of his own experience, he sheweth 10 the cunning of a whore, 22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton. 24 He dehorteth from such wickedness.

 7:1 ¶ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.

 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

 7:4 Say to wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:

 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.

 7:6 ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.

 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

 7:10 And behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.

 7:11 (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

 7:12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said to him,

 7:14 [I have] peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.

 7:15 Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

 7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.

 7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

 7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

 7:19 For the good-man [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:

 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.

 7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

 7:22 He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

 7:23 Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

 7:24 ¶ Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

 7:25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

 7:26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong [men] have been slain by her.

 7:27 Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.