Proverbs 7:1–5

Proverbs 7:1–5 (Listen)

Warning Against the Adulteress

7   My son, keep my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you;
2   keep my commandments and live;
    keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3   bind them on your fingers;
    write them on the tablet of your heart.
4   Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
    and call insight your intimate friend,
5   to keep you from the forbiddenHebrew strange">1 woman,
    from the adulteressHebrew the foreign woman">2 with her smooth words.

Footnotes

[2] 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman