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Proverbs 7
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1[My] son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments . [My] son, honor the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:
1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.
2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart.
3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
11And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; [and] I have found you.
15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
22And he followed her , being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24Now then, [my] son, listen to me , and attend to the words of my mouth.
24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25Let not your heart turn aside to her ways :
25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26for she has wounded and cast down many , and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.
27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.