King James Version
Proverbs • Chapter 7
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In your heart, keep my words and my commandments, treasure them with you.
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Keep My commandments and live, and My teaching as the pupil of your eye.
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Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your relative.
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"Guard yourself from a strange woman, from a foreigner whose words are smooth."
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For at my window of my house, I looked through my lattice.
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And I saw suddenly, I understood among the children, a youth lacking heart.
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He will pass through the market near her, and the way to her house he will walk.
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At twilight in the evening of the day, in the pupil of the night and darkness.
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And behold, a woman to meet him, dressed as a harlot and with a guarded heart.
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Her tumult is she, and the ruler in her house shall not let her feet rest.
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Once in the street, once in the squares, and at every corner, you will lie in wait.
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And she held onto him and kissed him boldly, and she said to him.
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The sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; today I have fulfilled my vows.
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Therefore, I went out to meet you, to seek your face, and I found you.
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I have trampled many carpets, I have made my bed for the strong ones of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Let us enjoy love until the morning; let us delight in the lovers.
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For there is no man in his house who has gone on the way from afar.
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A bundle of silver he took in his hand for the day his throne would come to his house.
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You have caused her to stray in the abundance of her taking; in a part of her lips, she will cast us away.
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The fool walks after the suddenness; like a bull to the slaughter, and like a fool to correction.
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Until he will hasten like a heavy arrow, like a bird to the trap, and he did not know that it is for his life.
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And now, sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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Do not stray onto her paths; do not wander in her ways.
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For many have been slain by her, and all who are slain by her are mighty.
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The paths of Sheol are descending to the chambers of death.