chapter_Proverbs_7
Proverbs 7:1: My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. Proverbs 7:2: Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. Proverbs 7:3: Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. Proverbs 7:4: Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou art.' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!' Proverbs 7:5: To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings. Proverbs 7:6: For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, Proverbs 7:7: And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, Proverbs 7:8: Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step, Proverbs 7:9: In the twilight &#8212; in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. Proverbs 7:10: And, lo, a woman to meet him &#8212; (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart, Proverbs 7:11: Noisy she is, and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. Proverbs 7:12: Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) &#8212; Proverbs 7:13: And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, Proverbs 7:14: Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows. Proverbs 7:15: Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. Proverbs 7:16: With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works &#8212; cotton of Egypt. Proverbs 7:17: I sprinkled my bed &#8212; myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Proverbs 7:18: Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. Proverbs 7:19: For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. Proverbs 7:20: A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.' Proverbs 7:21: She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. Proverbs 7:22: He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, Proverbs 7:23: Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life. Proverbs 7:24: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. Proverbs 7:25: Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, Proverbs 7:26: For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones. Proverbs 7:27: The ways of Sheol &#8212; her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
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