PR-7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with

thee.

PR-7:2  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple

of thine eye.

PR-7:3  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of

thine heart.

PR-7:4  Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call

understanding [thy]

kinswoman:

PR-7:5  That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the

stranger

[which] flattereth with her words.

PR-7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my

casement,

PR-7:7  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the

youths, a

young man void of understanding,

PR-7:8  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went

the way to her

house,

PR-7:9  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark

night:

PR-7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of

an harlot,

and subtle of heart.

PR-7:11  (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her

house:

PR-7:12  Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in

wait at every

corner.)

PR-7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an

impudent face said

unto him,

PR-7:14  [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed

my vows.

PR-7:15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek

thy face, and

I have found thee.

PR-7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with

carved [works],

with fine linen of Egypt.

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

PR-7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:

let us solace

ourselves with loves.

PR-7:19  For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long

journey:

PR-7:20  He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come

home at the

day appointed.

PR-7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with

the

flattering of her lips she forced him.

PR-7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the

slaughter, or

as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

PR-7:23  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth

to the snare,

and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

PR-7:24  Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and

attend to the words

of my mouth.

PR-7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray

in her paths.

PR-7:26  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong

[men] have been

slain by her.

PR-7:27  Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the

chambers of death.

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