| 7:1 | My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. | |
| 7:2 | Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye. | |
| 7:3 | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart. | |
| 7:4 | Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and call understanding kinswoman: | |
| 7:5 | That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger flattereth with her words. | |
| 7:6 | For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, | |
| 7:7 | And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, | |
| 7:8 | Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house. | |
| 7:9 | In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: | |
| 7:10 | And behold, there met him a woman the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart. | |
| 7:11 | (She loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: | |
| 7:12 | Now without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) | |
| 7:13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, with an impudent face said to him, | |
| 7:14 | peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows. | |
| 7:15 | Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. | |
| 7:16 | I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved , with fine linen of Egypt. | |
| 7:17 | I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. | |
| 7:18 | Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. | |
| 7:19 | For the good-man not at home, he is gone a long journey: | |
| 7:20 | He hath taken a bag of money with him, will come home at the day appointed. | |
| 7:21 | With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him. | |
| 7:22 | He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; | |
| 7:23 | Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it for his life. | |
| 7:24 | Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. | |
| 7:25 | Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. | |
| 7:26 | For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong have been slain by her. | |
| 7:27 | Her house the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. | |