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Proverbs 7
Proverbs 7
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
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My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;
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keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings 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 insight your intimate friend,
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that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth 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 observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
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passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
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in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
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Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.
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She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
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now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.
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She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
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"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
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so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!
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I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
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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 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 took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon."
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With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
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Right away he follows her, and goes like an ox to the slaughter, or bounds like a stag toward the trap
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until an arrow pierces its entrails. He is like a bird rushing into a snare, not knowing that it will cost him his life.
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And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
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Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
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for many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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