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