The Proverbs (WEB)

7:1 My son, keep my words.
      Lay up my commandments within you.

 ^7:2Keep my commandments and live;
      Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

 ^7:3Bind them on your fingers.
      Write them on the tablet of your heart.

 ^7:4Tell wisdom, "You are my sister."
      Call understanding your relative,

 ^7:5That they may keep you from the strange woman,
      From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

 ^7:6For at the window of my house,
      I looked forth through my lattice.

 ^7:7I saw among the simple ones.
      I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

 ^7:8Passing through the street near her corner,
      He went the way to her house,

 ^7:9In the twilight, in the evening of the day,
      In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

 ^7:10Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute,
      And with crafty intent.

 ^7:11She is loud and defiant.
      Her feet don't stay in her house.

 ^7:12Now she is in the streets, now in the squares,
      And lurking at every corner.

 ^7:13So she caught him, and kissed him.
      With an impudent face she said to him:

 ^7:14"Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me.
      This day I have paid my vows.

 ^7:15Therefore I came out to meet you,
      To diligently seek your face,
      And I have found you.

 ^7:16I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,
      With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

 ^7:17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

 ^7:18Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning.
      Let's solace ourselves with loving.

 ^7:19For my husband isn't at home.
      He has gone on a long journey.

 ^7:20He has taken a bag of money with him.
      He will come home at the full moon."

 ^7:21With persuasive words, she led him astray.
      With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

 ^7:22He followed her immediately,
      As an ox goes to the slaughter,
      As a fool stepping into a noose.

 ^7:23Until an arrow strikes through his liver,
      As a bird hurries to the snare,
      And doesn't know that it will cost his life.

 ^7:24Now therefore, sons, listen to me.
      Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

 ^7:25Don't let your heart turn to her ways.
      Don't go astray in her paths,

 ^7:26For she has thrown down many wounded.
      Yes, all her slain are a mighty host.

 ^7:27Her house is the way to Sheol,
      Going down to the chambers of death.

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