Proverbs 7

The instruction here is intense and focused on avoiding the enticement of the forbidden woman. The father urges his son to hide his commands in his heart and treat wisdom as a sister. The chapter then gives a vivid, cautionary tale: the son watches a simple young man walk down the street near the house of an adulteress. She seduces him with smooth talk and promises, luring him to his destruction like an ox going to the slaughter. The father concludes by stressing that her house is the direct path to the chambers of death.