Proverbs 7:1-10 New American Standard Bible
The Lures of the Prostitute
7 My son, (A)keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.
2 (B)Keep my commandments and live,
And my [a]teaching (C)as the [b]apple of your eye.
3 (D)Bind them on your fingers;
(E)Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend,
5 So that they may keep you from an [c]adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 For (F)at the window of my house
I looked out (G)through my lattice,
7 And I saw among the (H)naive,
And discerned among the [d]youths
A young man (I)lacking [e]sense,
8 Passing through the street near (J)her corner;
And he walks along the way to (K)her house,
9 In the (L)twilight, in the [f]evening,
In the [g]middle of the night and the darkness.
10 And behold, a woman comes to meet him,
(M)Dressed as a prostitute and cunning of heart.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:2 Or law
- Proverbs 7:2 Lit pupil
- Proverbs 7:5 Lit strange woman
- Proverbs 7:7 Lit sons
- Proverbs 7:7 Lit heart
- Proverbs 7:9 Lit evening of the day
- Proverbs 7:9 Lit pupil (of the eye)
Cross references
- Proverbs 7:1 : Prov 2:1; 6:20
- Proverbs 7:2 : Prov 4:4
- Proverbs 7:2 : Deut 32:10; Ps 17:8; Zech 2:8
- Proverbs 7:3 : Deut 6:8; 11:18; Prov 6:21
- Proverbs 7:3 : Prov 3:3
- Proverbs 7:6 : Judg 5:28
- Proverbs 7:6 : Song 2:9
- Proverbs 7:7 : Prov 1:22
- Proverbs 7:7 : Prov 6:32; 9:4
- Proverbs 7:8 : Prov 7:12
- Proverbs 7:8 : Prov 7:27
- Proverbs 7:9 : Job 24:15
- Proverbs 7:10 : Gen 38:14, 15; 1 Tim 2:9
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