Verse 2
Proverbs 7:2
Bible in Basic English
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Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
Original Language Text
hebrew
שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֺתַ֣/י וֶ/חְיֵ֑ה וְ֝/תוֹרָתִ֗/י כְּ/אִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽי/ךָ
English Translation
Keep My commandments and live, and My teaching as the pupil of your eye.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
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My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
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Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
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Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
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Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
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So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
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Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
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I saw among the young men one without sense,
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Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
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At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
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And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
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She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
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Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
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So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
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I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
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So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
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My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
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I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
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Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
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For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
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He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
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With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
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The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
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Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into...
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So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
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Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
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For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their deat...
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Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
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