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aMy son, keep my words,
And treasure up my commandments within you.
Prov. 7
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Keep my commandments, and live;
And my teaching, like the apple of your eye.
Prov. 7
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7:3
Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the
atablet of your heart.
Prov. 7
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Say to wisdom, You are my sister,
And call understanding
your close friend,
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That they may keep you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words.
Prov. 7
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For at the window of my house
I looked out through my lattice,
Prov. 7
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And I saw among the simple ones,
I discerned among the youths,
A young man lacking sense,
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Passing along the street near her corner;
And he takes the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in the evening of the day,
In the deep of night and darkness.
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And there
comes a woman to meet him,
Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
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She is rowdy and defiant;
Her feet do not stay at home —
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Now in the street, now in the squares,
And at every corner she lies in wait.
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And she grabs him and kisses him;
And with an impudent face she says to him,
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I had to make offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.
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Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To earnestly seek your presence; and I have found you.
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I have decked my couch with coverings,
Colored spreads of the linen of Egypt;
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I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh,
Aloes, and cinnamon.
Prov. 7
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Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning;
Let us delight ourselves with love.
Prov. 7
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For my husband is not at home;
He has gone on a long journey.
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He has taken the money bag with him;
He will come home at the full moon.
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With her great persuasiveness she beguiles him;
With her smooth talk she compels him.
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He goes after her immediately,
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as
someone in fetters, to the correction of the fool,
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Until an arrow pierces through his liver.
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that this
will cost him his life.
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aAnd now,
my sons, listen to me,
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Prov. 7
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Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways;
Do not stray into her paths.
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For many are those whom she has brought down wounded,
And numerous are all who have been slain by her.
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Her house is the way to Sheol,
Going down to the chambers of death.
