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Proverbs 7

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Warning Against the Adulteress

Solomon Teaches about Wisdom and the Fool

 
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My son, keep my words.Lay up my commandments within you. +
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Keep my commandments and live!Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye. +
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Bind them on your fingers.Write them on the tablet of your heart. +
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Tell wisdom, "You are my sister."Call understanding your relative,
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that they may keep you from the strange woman,from the foreigner who flatters with her words. +
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For at the window of my house,I looked out through my lattice. +
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I saw among the simple ones.I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding, +
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passing through the street near her corner,he went the way to her house, +
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in the twilight, in the evening of the day,in the middle of the night and in the darkness. +
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Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,and with crafty intent. +
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She is loud and defiant.Her feet don't stay in her house. +
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Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,and lurking at every corner.
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So she caught him, and kissed him.With an impudent face she said to him: +
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"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me.Today I have paid my vows.
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Therefore I came out to meet you,to diligently seek your face,and I have found you.
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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt. +
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. +
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Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning.Let's solace ourselves with loving. +
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For my husband isn't at home.He has gone on a long journey.
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He has taken a bag of money with him.He will come home at the full moon." +
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With persuasive words, she led him astray.With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him. +
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He followed her immediately,as an ox goes to the slaughter,as a fool stepping into a noose. +
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Until an arrow strikes through his liver,as a bird hurries to the snare,and doesn't know that it will cost his life. +
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Now therefore, sons, listen to me.Pay attention to the words of my mouth. +
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Don't let your heart turn to her ways.Don't go astray in her paths,
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for she has thrown down many wounded.Yes, all her slain are a mighty army. +
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Her house is the way to Sheol,going down to the rooms of death.


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