{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T14:24:34.412Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":7,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":6,"nextChapter":8,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":27},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Bind them on your fingers, write them on the table of your heart."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger which flatters with her words."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now is she without, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"I have peace offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore came I forth to meet you, diligently to seek your face, and I have found you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For the manager is not at home, he is gone a long journey:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He has taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He goes after her straightway, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hastens to the snare, and knows not that it is for his life."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Listen to me now therefore, O you children, and attend to the words of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Let not your heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For she has cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 7 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 7](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/7 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}