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Prov.|7:1|-||a|My son, keep my words,And treasure up my commandments within you.
Prov.|7:2|-|Keep my commandments, and live;And my teaching, like the apple of your eye.
Prov.|7:3|-|Bind them on your fingers;Write them on the |a|tablet of your heart.
Prov.|7:4|-|Say to wisdom, You are my sister,And call understanding your close friend,
Prov.|7:5|-|That they may keep you from the strange woman,From the adulteress who flatters with her words.
Prov.|7:6|-|For at the window of my houseI looked out through my lattice,
Prov.|7:7|-|And I saw among the simple ones,I discerned among the youths,
A young man lacking sense,
Prov.|7:8|-|Passing along the street near her corner;And he takes the way to her house,
Prov.|7:9|-|In the twilight, in the evening of the day,In the deep of night and darkness.
Prov.|7:10|-|And there comes a woman to meet him,Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
Prov.|7:11|-|She is rowdy and defiant;Her feet do not stay at home—
Prov.|7:12|-|Now in the street, now in the squares,And at every corner she lies in wait.
Prov.|7:13|-|And she grabs him and kisses him;And with an impudent face she says to him,
Prov.|7:14|-|I had to make offerings;Today I have paid my vows.
Prov.|7:15|-|Therefore I have come out to meet you,To earnestly seek your presence; and I have found you.
Prov.|7:16|-|I have decked my couch with coverings,Colored spreads of the linen of Egypt;
Prov.|7:17|-|I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh,Aloes, and cinnamon.
Prov.|7:18|-|Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning;Let us delight ourselves with love.
Prov.|7:19|-|For my husband is not at home;He has gone on a long journey.
Prov.|7:20|-|He has taken the money bag with him;He will come home at the full moon.
Prov.|7:21|-|With her great persuasiveness she beguiles him;With her smooth talk she compels him.
Prov.|7:22|-|He goes after her immediately,As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as someone in fetters, to the correction of the fool,
Prov.|7:23|-|Until an arrow pierces through his liver.As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that this will cost him his life.
Prov.|7:24|-||a|And now, my sons, listen to me,And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Prov.|7:25|-|Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways;Do not stray into her paths.
Prov.|7:26|-|For many are those whom she has brought down wounded,And numerous are all who have been slain by her.
Prov.|7:27|-|Her house is the way to Sheol,Going down to the chambers of death.
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