Proverbs - Chapter 7 | Good News Translation

  • 1. My child, remember what I say and never forget what I tell you to do.
  • 2. Do what I say, and you will live. Be as careful to follow my teaching as you are to protect your eyes.
  • 3. Keep my teaching with you all the time; write it on your heart.
  • 4. Treat wisdom as your sister, and insight as your closest friend.
  • 5. They will keep you away from other men's wives, from women with seductive words.
  • 6. Once I was looking out the window of my house,
  • 7. and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular.
  • 8. He was walking along the street near the corner where a certain woman lived. He was passing near her house
  • 9. in the evening after it was dark.
  • 10. And then she met him; she was dressed like a prostitute and was making plans.
  • 11. She was a bold and shameless woman who always walked the streets
  • 12. or stood waiting at a corner, sometimes in the streets, sometimes in the marketplace.
  • 13. She threw her arms around the young man, kissed him, looked him straight in the eye, and said,
  • 14. "I made my offerings today and have the meat from the sacrifices.
  • 15. So I came out looking for you. I wanted to find you, and here you are!
  • 16. I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt.
  • 17. I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
  • 18. Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms.
  • 19. My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip.
  • 20. He took plenty of money with him and won't be back for two weeks."
  • 21. So she tempted him with her charms, and he gave in to her smooth talk.
  • 22. Suddenly he was going with her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered, like a deer prancing into a trap
  • 23. where an arrow would pierce its heart. He was like a bird going into a net---he did not know that his life was in danger.
  • 24. Now then, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to what I say.
  • 25. Do not let such a woman win your heart; don't go wandering after her.
  • 26. She has been the ruin of many men and caused the death of too many to count.
  • 27. If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.
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