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