rsv - 7

rsv@Proverbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

rsv@Proverbs:7:2 @ keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

rsv@Proverbs:7:3 @ bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;

rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.

rsv@Proverbs:7:6 @ For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,

rsv@Proverbs:7:7 @ and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,

rsv@Proverbs:7:8 @ passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house

rsv@Proverbs:7:9 @ in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.

rsv@Proverbs:7:10 @ And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.

rsv@Proverbs:7:11 @ She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;

rsv@Proverbs:7:12 @ now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.

rsv@Proverbs:7:13 @ She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:

rsv@Proverbs:7:14 @ "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

rsv@Proverbs:7:15 @ so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.

rsv@Proverbs:7:16 @ I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;

rsv@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

rsv@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.

rsv@Proverbs:7:19 @ For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

rsv@Proverbs:7:20 @ he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."

rsv@Proverbs:7:21 @ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

rsv@Proverbs:7:22 @ All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast

rsv@Proverbs:7:23 @ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.

rsv@Proverbs:7:24 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;

rsv@Proverbs:7:26 @ for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.

rsv@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 7