{"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/dbt/proverbs/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:07:53.753Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","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 thee."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman:"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, 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 of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"now without, now in the broadways, and she lieth in wait at every corner."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto 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 thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 7 (DBT)","markdown":"[Proverbs 7](https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/proverbs/7 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}