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The Proverbs, Chapter 7
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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine
eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine
heart.
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy
kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from
the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a
young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near
her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in
the evening, in the black and dark night:
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And, behold, there met
him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every
corner.)
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So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent
face said unto him,
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I have peace offerings with me; this day have
I payed my vows.
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face,
and I have found thee.
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
works, with fine linen of Egypt.
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
solace ourselves with loves.
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For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
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He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day
appointed.
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
flattering of her lips she forced him.
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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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Till a dart strike
through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not
that it is for his life.
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Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the
words of my mouth.
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her
paths.
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For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have
been slain by her.
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Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of
death.
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