{"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/web/proverbs/7","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T21:52:58.446Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","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. Lay up my commandments within you."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Tell wisdom, |You are my sister.| Call understanding your relative,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"I saw 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, he went the way to her house,"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"|Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.|"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 7 (WEB)","markdown":"[Proverbs 7](https://primebible.com/web/proverbs/7)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/proverbs/7 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}