Proverbs 7:4-12

English Standard Version

⁴Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call insight your intimate friend,
⁵to keep you from ^(A)the forbidden^[a] woman,
from ^(B)the adulteress^[b] with her smooth words.

⁶For at ^(C)the window of my house
    I have looked out through my lattice,
⁷and I have seen among ^(D)the simple,
    I have perceived among the youths,
    a young man ^(E)lacking sense,
⁸passing along the street ^(F)near her corner,
    taking the road to her house
⁹in ^(G)the twilight, in the evening,
    at ^(H)the time of night and darkness.

¹⁰And behold, the woman meets him,
    ^(I)dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.^[c]
¹¹She is ^(J)loud and ^(K)wayward;
    ^(L)her feet do not stay at home;
¹²now in the street, now in the market,
    and ^(M)at every corner she ^(N)lies in wait.