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Proverbs 7

¹My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

²Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

⁵That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice.

⁷I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

⁸Passing through the street near her corner, He went the way to her house,

⁹In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

¹⁰Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, And with crafty intent.

¹¹She is loud and defiant. Her feet don`t stay in her house.

¹²Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

¹⁴"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

¹⁵Therefore I came out to meet you, To diligently seek your face, And I have found you.

¹⁶I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

¹⁷I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸Come, let`s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let`s solace ourselves with loving.

¹⁹For my husband isn`t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

²⁰He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."

²¹With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

²²He followed her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, As a fool stepping into a noose.

²³Until an arrow strikes through his liver, As a bird hurries to the snare, And doesn`t know that it will cost his life.

²⁴Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

²⁵Don`t let your heart turn to her ways. Don`t go astray in her paths,

²⁶For she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

²⁷Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

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