noyes@Proverbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words, And treasure up my commandments with thee!

noyes@Proverbs:7:2 @ Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!

noyes@Proverbs:7:3 @ Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the tablet of thy heart!

noyes@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say unto wisdom, "Thou art my sister!" And call understanding thy near acquaintance;

noyes@Proverbs:7:5 @ That they may keep thee from the wife of another, From the stranger, that useth smooth words.

noyes@Proverbs:7:6 @ For through the window of my house, Through the lattice I was looking forth,

noyes@Proverbs:7:7 @ And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding.

noyes@Proverbs:7:8 @ He was passing through the street near her corner, And was going the way to her house,

noyes@Proverbs:7:9 @ At twilight, in the evening, At midnight, yea, in the thick darkness.

noyes@Proverbs:7:10 @ And, behold, a woman met him, In the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart,––

noyes@Proverbs:7:11 @ One noisy and unruly, Whose feet abide not in her house;

noyes@Proverbs:7:12 @ Who is now in the streets, now in the broad places, And lurketh near every corner.

noyes@Proverbs:7:13 @ She caught hold of him and kissed him, And with a shameless face said to him,

noyes@Proverbs:7:14 @ "Thank–offerings have been upon me, And this day have I performed my vows;

noyes@Proverbs:7:15 @ Therefore came I forth to meet thee,––Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee!

noyes@Proverbs:7:16 @ I have spread my bed with coverlets, With tapestry of the thread of Egypt.

noyes@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

noyes@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with caresses.

noyes@Proverbs:7:19 @ For the good–man is not at home; He is gone a long journey;

noyes@Proverbs:7:20 @ He hath taken a purse of money with him; At the day of the full moon he will return."

noyes@Proverbs:7:21 @ By her much fair speech she seduced him; By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.

noyes@Proverbs:7:22 @ He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the chastisement of the fool,

noyes@Proverbs:7:23 @ Till an arrow strike through his liver; ––As a bird hasteneth into the snare, And knoweth not that it is laid for its life.

noyes@Proverbs:7:24 @ Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me, And attend to the words of my mouth!

noyes@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways; Go not astray in her paths!

noyes@Proverbs:7:26 @ For many are the wounded which she hath cast down; Yea, countless is the number of those slain by her.

noyes@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to the under–world, Leading down to the chambers of death.

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