Proverbs 7

Lay up my commandments within you.

Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Call understanding your relative,

from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I looked out through my lattice.

I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

he went the way to her house,

in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

and with crafty intent.

Her feet don’t stay in her house.

and lurking at every corner.

With an impudent face she said to him:

Today I have paid my vows.

and I have found you.

with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

He has gone on a long journey.

He will come home at the full moon.”

With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

as a fool stepping into a noose.

and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Don’t go astray in her paths,

Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

going down to the rooms of death.