Proverbs:7-8
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My son ,
keep my words ,
and lay up my commandments with thee .
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Keep my commandments ,
and live ;
and my law as the apple of thine eye .
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Bind them upon thy fingers ,
write them upon the table of thine heart .
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Say unto wisdom ,
Thou art my sister ;
and call understanding thy kinswoman :
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman ,
from the stranger which flattereth with her words .
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement ,
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And beheld 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 ;
and he went the way to her house ,
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In the twilight ,
in the evening ,
in the black and dark night :
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And ,
behold ,
there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot ,
and subtil of heart .
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She is loud and stubborn ;
her feet abide not in her house :
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Now is she without ,
now in the streets ,
and lieth in wait at every corner .)
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So she caught him ,
and kissed him ,
and with an impudent face said unto him ,
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I have peace offerings with me ;
this day have I payed my vows .
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee ,
diligently to seek thy face ,
and I have found thee .
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry ,
with carved works ,
with fine linen of Egypt .
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh ,
aloes ,
and cinnamon .
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Come ,
let us take our fill of love until the morning :
let us solace ourselves with loves .
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For the goodman is not at home ,
he is gone a long journey :
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He hath taken a bag of money with him ,
and will come home at the day appointed .
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield ,
with the flattering of her lips she forced him .
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He goeth after her straightway ,
as an ox goeth to the slaughter ,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ;
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Till a dart strike through his liver ;
as a bird hasteth to the snare ,
and knoweth not that it is for his life .
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Hearken unto me now therefore ,
O ye children ,
and attend to the words of my mouth .
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways ,
go not astray in her paths .
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For she hath cast down many wounded :
yea ,
many strong men have been slain by her .
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Her house is the way to hell ,
going down to the chambers of death .
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Doth not wisdom cry ?
and understanding put forth her voice ?
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She standeth in the top of high places ,
by the way in the places of the paths .
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She crieth at the gates ,
at the entry of the city ,
at the coming in at the doors .
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Unto you ,
O men ,
I call ;
and my voice is to the sons of man .
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O ye simple ,
understand wisdom :
and ,
ye fools ,
be ye of an understanding heart .
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Hear ;
for I will speak of excellent things ;
and the opening of my lips shall be right things .
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For my mouth shall speak truth ;
and wickedness is an abomination to my lips .
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All the words of my mouth are in righteousness ;
there is nothing froward or perverse in them .
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They are all plain to him that understandeth ,
and right to them that find knowledge .
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Receive my instruction ,
and not silver ;
and knowledge rather than choice gold .
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For wisdom is better than rubies ;
and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it .
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I wisdom dwell with prudence ,
and find out knowledge of witty inventions .
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The fear of the LORD is to hate evil :
pride ,
and arrogancy ,
and the evil way ,
and the froward mouth ,
do I hate .
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Counsel is mine ,
and sound wisdom :
I am understanding ;
I have strength .
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By me kings reign ,
and princes decree justice .
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By me princes rule ,
and nobles ,
even all the judges of the earth .
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I love them that love me ;
and those that seek me early shall find me .
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Riches and honour are with me ;
yea ,
durable riches and righteousness .
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My fruit is better than gold ,
yea ,
than fine gold ;
and my revenue than choice silver .
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I lead in the way of righteousness ,
in the midst of the paths of judgment :
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That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance ;
and I will fill their treasures .
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The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way ,
before his works of old .
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I was set up from everlasting ,
from the beginning ,
or ever the earth was .
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When there were no depths ,
I was brought forth ;
when there were no fountains abounding with water .
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Before the mountains were settled ,
before the hills was I brought forth :
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While as yet he had not made the earth ,
nor the fields ,
nor the highest part of the dust of the world .
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When he prepared the heavens ,
I was there :
when he set a compass upon the face of the depth :
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When he established the clouds above :
when he strengthened the fountains of the deep :
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When he gave to the sea his decree ,
that the waters should not pass his commandment :
when he appointed the foundations of the earth :
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Then I was by him ,
as one brought up with him :
and I was daily his delight ,
rejoicing always before him ;
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Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ;
and my delights were with the sons of men .
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Now therefore hearken unto me ,
O ye children :
for blessed are they that keep my ways .
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Hear instruction ,
and be wise ,
and refuse it not .
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Blessed is the man that heareth me ,
watching daily at my gates ,
waiting at the posts of my doors .
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For whoso findeth me findeth life ,
and shall obtain favour of the LORD .
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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul :
all they that hate me love death .
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Wisdom hath builded her house ,
she hath hewn out her seven pillars :
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