Proverbs:7-8
rsv@Proverbs:7:1 @ My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
rsv@Proverbs:7:2 @ keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
rsv@Proverbs:7:3 @ bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
rsv@Proverbs:7:4 @ Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend;
rsv@Proverbs:7:5 @ to preserve you from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words.
rsv@Proverbs:7:6 @ For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,
rsv@Proverbs:7:7 @ and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
rsv@Proverbs:7:8 @ passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
rsv@Proverbs:7:9 @ in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
rsv@Proverbs:7:10 @ And lo, a woman meets him, dressed as a harlot, wily of heart.
rsv@Proverbs:7:11 @ She is loud and wayward, her feet do not stay at home;
rsv@Proverbs:7:12 @ now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.
rsv@Proverbs:7:13 @ She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
rsv@Proverbs:7:14 @ "I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
rsv@Proverbs:7:15 @ so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.
rsv@Proverbs:7:16 @ I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
rsv@Proverbs:7:17 @ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
rsv@Proverbs:7:18 @ Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
rsv@Proverbs:7:19 @ For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
rsv@Proverbs:7:20 @ he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home."
rsv@Proverbs:7:21 @ With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
rsv@Proverbs:7:22 @ All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
rsv@Proverbs:7:23 @ till an arrow pierces its entrails; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.
rsv@Proverbs:7:24 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
rsv@Proverbs:7:25 @ Let not your heart turn aside to her ways, do not stray into her paths;
rsv@Proverbs:7:26 @ for many a victim has she laid low; yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
rsv@Proverbs:7:27 @ Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
rsv@Proverbs:8:1 @ Does not wisdom call, does not understanding raise her voice?
rsv@Proverbs:8:2 @ On the heights beside the way, in the paths she takes her stand;
rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
rsv@Proverbs:8:4 @ "To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the sons of men.
rsv@Proverbs:8:5 @ O simple ones, learn prudence; O foolish men, pay attention.
rsv@Proverbs:8:6 @ Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;
rsv@Proverbs:8:7 @ for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
rsv@Proverbs:8:8 @ All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
rsv@Proverbs:8:9 @ They are all straight to him who understands and right to those who find knowledge.
rsv@Proverbs:8:10 @ Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold;
rsv@Proverbs:8:11 @ for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
rsv@Proverbs:8:12 @ I, wisdom, dwell in prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
rsv@Proverbs:8:13 @ The fear of the LORD is hatred of evil. Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate.
rsv@Proverbs:8:14 @ I have counsel and sound wisdom, I have insight, I have strength.
rsv@Proverbs:8:15 @ By me kings reign, and rulers decree what is just;
rsv@Proverbs:8:16 @ by me princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.
rsv@Proverbs:8:17 @ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.
rsv@Proverbs:8:18 @ Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and prosperity.
rsv@Proverbs:8:19 @ My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.
rsv@Proverbs:8:20 @ I walk in the way of righteousness, in the paths of justice,
rsv@Proverbs:8:21 @ endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries.
rsv@Proverbs:8:22 @ The LORD created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.
rsv@Proverbs:8:23 @ Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
rsv@Proverbs:8:24 @ When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.
rsv@Proverbs:8:25 @ Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth;
rsv@Proverbs:8:26 @ before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.
rsv@Proverbs:8:27 @ When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
rsv@Proverbs:8:28 @ when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep,
rsv@Proverbs:8:29 @ when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
rsv@Proverbs:8:30 @ then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always,
rsv@Proverbs:8:31 @ rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
rsv@Proverbs:8:32 @ And now, my sons, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.
rsv@Proverbs:8:33 @ Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
rsv@Proverbs:8:35 @ For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the LORD;
rsv@Proverbs:8:36 @ but he who misses me injures himself; all who hate me love death."
rsv@Proverbs:9:1 @ Wisdom has built her house, she has set up her seven pillars.
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