Welcome to the Daily Audio Proverb. Today is the seventh of the month. I'm Brian Hardin. It's great to be here with you today. We'll read Proverbs chapter 7 from the Amplified Bible.

My son, keep my words.

Lay up within you my commandments for use when needed and treasure them.

Keep my commandments and live and keep my law and teaching as the apple, the pupil of your eye.

Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to skillful and godly wisdom, you are my sister. And regard understanding or

insight as your intimate friend that they may keep you from the loose woman,

from the adventurous who flatters and makes smooth her words.

For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice, and among the simple,

empty-headed and empty-hearted ones, I perceived among the youths a young man void of good sense,

sauntering through the street near the loose woman's corner, and he went the way to her house.

In the twilight, in the evening, night black and dense was falling over the young man's life.

And behold, there met him a woman, dressed as a harlot and sly and cunning of heart.

She is turbulent and willful.

Her feet stay not in her house.

Now in the streets? now in the marketplaces,

she sets her ambush at every corner. So she caught him and kissed him. And with impudent face,

she said to him, sacrifices of peace offerings were due for me. This day I paid my vows,

so I came forth to meet you, that you might share with me the feast from my offering.

Diligently I sought your face, and I have found you.

I have spread my couch with rugs and cushions of tapestry, with striped sheets of fine linen of Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with my my berl, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us take our fill of love until morning.

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