Proverbs 7

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(Pro 7:1) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
(Pro 7:2) Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
(Pro 7:3) Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
(Pro 7:4) Say unto wisdom, Thou {art} my sister; and call understanding {thy} kinswoman:
(Pro 7:5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger {which} flattereth with her words.
(Pro 7:6) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
(Pro 7:7) And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
(Pro 7:8) Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
(Pro 7:9) In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
(Pro 7:10) And, behold, there met him a woman {with} the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
(Pro 7:11) (She {is} loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
(Pro 7:12) Now {is she} without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
(Pro 7:13) So she caught him, and kissed him, {and} with an impudent face said unto him,
(Pro 7:14) {I have} peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
(Pro 7:15) Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
(Pro 7:16) I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved {works}, with fine linen of Egypt.
(Pro 7:17) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
(Pro 7:18) Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
(Pro 7:19) For the goodman {is} not at home, he is gone a long journey:
(Pro 7:20) He hath taken a bag of money with him, {and} will come home at the day appointed.
(Pro 7:21) With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
(Pro 7:22) He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
(Pro 7:23) Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it {is} for his life.
(Pro 7:24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
(Pro 7:25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
(Pro 7:26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong {men} have been slain by her.
(Pro 7:27) Her house {is} the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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