2Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!
3Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the tablet of thy heart!
4Say unto wisdom, “Thou art my sister!” And call understanding thy near acquaintance;
5That they may keep thee from the wife of another, From the stranger, that useth smooth words.
6For through the window of my house, Through the lattice I was looking forth,
7And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding.
8He was passing through the street near her corner, And was going the way to her house,
9At twilight, in the evening, At midnight, yea, in the thick darkness.
10And, behold, a woman met him, In the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart,—
11One noisy and unruly, Whose feet abide not in her house;
12Who is now in the streets, now in the broad places, And lurketh near every corner.
13She caught hold of him and kissed him, And with a shameless face said to him,
14“Thank-offerings have been upon me, And this day have I performed my vows;
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee,—Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee!
Proverbs 7
Proverbs 7:2-15