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