Proverbs:7

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* My son , keep my words , and lay up my commandments with thee . * Keep my commandments , and live ; and my teaching , as the apple of thine eye . * Bind them upon thy fingers , write them upon the tablet of thy heart . * Say unto wisdom , Thou art my sister , and call intelligence [thy ] kinswoman : * that they may keep thee from the strange woman , from the stranger who flattereth with her words . * For at the window of my house , I looked forth through my lattice , * and I beheld among the simple ones , I discerned among the sons , a young man void of understanding , * passing through the street near her corner ; and he went the way to her house , * in the twilight , in the evening of the day , in the blackness of night and the darkness . * And behold , there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot , and subtle of heart . * She is clamorous and unmanageable ; her feet abide not in her house : * now without , now in the broadways , -- and she lieth in wait at every corner . * And she caught him and kissed him , and with an impudent face said unto him , * I have peace-offerings with me ; this day have I paid my vows : * therefore came I forth to meet thee , to seek earnestly thy face , and I have found thee . * I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt ; * I have perfumed my couch with myrrh , aloes , and cinnamon . * Come , let us revel in love until the morning , let us delight ourselves with loves . * For the husband is not at home , he is gone a long journey ; * he hath taken the money-bag with him , he will come home on the day of the full moon . * With her much enticement she beguiled him ; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him . * He went after her straightway , as an ox goeth to the slaughter , and as stocks [serve ] for the correction of the fool ; * till an arrow strike through his liver : as a bird hasteth to the snare , and knoweth not that it is for its life . * And now , ye sons , hearken unto me , and attend to the words of my mouth . * Let not thy heart decline to her ways , go not astray in her paths : * for she hath cast down many wounded , and all slain by her were strong . * Her house is the way to Sheol , going down to the chambers of death .

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