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