Proverbs:7

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* My son , observe my sayings , and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee . * Observe my commandments , and live : and my teaching as the apple of thy eyes . * Bind them around thy fingers , write them upon the table of thy heart . * Say unto wisdom , Thou art my sister ; and call understanding thy kinswoman : * That they may keep thee from an adulterous woman , from an alien that useth flattering speeches . * For through the window of my house , through my lattice did I look out , * And I beheld among the simple ones , I discerned among the youths , a lad void of sense ; * He was passing through the market –place near her corner ; and he stepped along on the way to her house , * In the twilight , in the evening of the day , in the depth of the night and when it was dark : * And , behold , a woman came to meet him with the attire of a harlot , and obdurate of heart . * (She is noisy and ungovernable ; in her house her feet never rest ; * At one time she is in the street , at another in the open places , and near every corner doth she lurk ,) * And she caught hold of him , and kissed him , and with an impudent face she said to him , * "I had bound myself to bring peace –offerings ; this day have I paid my vows : * Therefore am I come forth to meet thee , to seek thy presence diligently , and I have found thee . * With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed , with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt . * I have sprinkled my couch with myrrh , aloes , and cinnamon . * Come , let us indulge in love until the morning : let us delight ourselves with dalliances . * For the man is not in his house , he is gone on a journey a great way off : * The bag of money hath he taken with him , by the day of the new –moon festival only will he come home ." * She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning : by the flattery of her lips she misguided him . * He followed after her suddenly , as an ox goeth to the slaughter , and as in fetters to his correction , the fool : * Till an arrow cleaveth through his liver ; as a bird hasteneth into the snare , and knoweth not that it is done to take his life . * And now , O children , hearken unto me , and listen to the sayings of my mouth . * Let not thy heart turn aside to her ways , do not go astray on her paths . * For many deadly wounded hath she caused to fall : yea , very numerous are all those slain by her . * The ways to the nether world is her house leading down to the chambers of death .

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