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Proverbs 7


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1:   My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2:   Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3:   Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4:   Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5:   That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

6:   For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7:   And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8:   Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9:   In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

10:   And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11:   (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12:   Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13:   So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14:   I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15:   Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16:   I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17:   I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18:   Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19:   For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20:   He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21:   With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

22:   He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23:   Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24:   Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25:   Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26:   For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27:   Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.