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CHAP. VII.
1 Solomon perswadeth to a sincere and kind familiaritie with wisedome. 6 In an example of his owne experience, he sheweth 10 the cunning of an whore, 22 And the desperate simplicitie of a yong wanton. 24 Hee dehorteth from such wickednesse.
1My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.
2Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.2
3Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,
5That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.5
6¶ For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement,
7And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,7
8Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,
9In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:9
10And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart.
11(She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house:11
12Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)
13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him,13
14I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.14
15Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.
16I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.
17I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.
19For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.
20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.20
21With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks,22
24¶ Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.
26For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her.
27Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death.27
Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Proverbs Chapter 7
2 Deut.6.8. & 11.18. chap.3. 3.
5 Chap.5.3.
7 Heb. the sonnes.
9 Heb. in the euening of the day.
11 Chap.9.13
13 Heb. shee strengthened her face and sayd.
14 Heb. peace offerings are vpon me.
20 Heb. in his hand. , Or, the New moone.
22 Heb. suddenly.
27 Chap.2. 18. & 5.5.
* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania
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