English / ERV
Proverbs 7
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1My son, remember my words. Don’t forget what I have told you.
- 2Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life.
- 3Tie them around your finger. Write them on your heart.
- 4Treat wisdom like the woman you love and knowledge like the one dearest to you.
- 5Wisdom will save you from that other woman, the other man’s wife, who tempts you with such sweet words.
- 6One day I was looking out my window
- 7at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all.
- 8He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house.
- 9The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark.
- 10Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him.
- 11She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home.
- 12She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap.
- 13She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said,
- 14“I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give,
- 15and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!
- I have clean sheets on my bed—special ones from Egypt.