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Proverbs 7
Proverbs 7
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
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My son, keep my words, and treasure my commandments within you.
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Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kin,
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that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
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and I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man lacking understanding,
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passing through the street near her corner, taking 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, a woman met him, with the attire of a prostitute and with crafty intent.
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She was loud and stubborn; her feet did not stay at home.
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Now she is in the streets, now in the markets, lying in wait at every corner.
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She caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him:
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“I have peace offerings with me; this day I have paid my vows.
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Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek you, and I have found you.
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I have decked my couch with tapestry, colored linens from 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 delight ourselves with love.
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For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
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He has taken a bag of money with him and will not come home until full moon.”
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With her enticing speech she led him astray; with her flattering lips she seduced him.
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Immediately he followed her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks,
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until an arrow pierces his liver; as a bird darting into the snare, he did not know that it would cost him his life.
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Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, And be attentive to the words of my mouth.
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Let not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,
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for many are the wounded she has laid low, and numerous are all those slain by her.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
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