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.

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