# Proverbs 7

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/7

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
2. Keep my commands and live; guard my teaching like the pupil of your eye.
3. Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your close relative,
5. so that they may keep you from the forbidden woman, from the foreign woman with her smooth words.
6. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
7. and I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a young man who lacked sense,
8. passing along the street near her corner, walking down the road to her house,
9. in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the black of night and the darkness.
10. Suddenly a woman came out to meet him, dressed like a prostitute, with a cunning heart.
11. She is loud and defiant; her feet do not stay at home;
12. now in the street, now in the squares, she lies in wait at every corner.
13. She grabbed him and kissed him, and with a brazen face she said to him,
14. “I had fellowship offerings to make; today I have paid my vows.
15. So I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you.
16. I have spread my couch with coverings, with colored linens from Egypt.
17. I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with lovemaking.
19. For the man of the house is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
20. He took a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.”
21. With her many persuasions she turned him; with her smooth lips she pushed him along.
22. All at once he follows her, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a fool in shackles going to be punished,
23. until an arrow pierces his liver—like a bird darting into a snare, not knowing it will cost him his life.
24. So now, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to the words of my mouth.
25. Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not wander into her paths.
26. For many are the victims she has brought down; all whom she has killed are a mighty throng.
27. Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

## Nearby chapters

[Proverbs 6](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/6.md)
[Proverbs 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/proverbs/8.md)

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