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The Blue Letter Bible

Proverbs 7 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. (LXX 7:1a) My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 - Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:7 - passing by the corner in the passages [fn]near her house,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:8 - and speaking, in the dark of the evening,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:9 - when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:11 - And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:14 - I have a peace-offering; to-day I pay my vows:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:15 - therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; and I have found thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:16 - I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:20 - having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips she forced him from the right path.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - And he followed her, being gently led on, and that as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:24 - Now then, my son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - Her house is the [fn]way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.
BES Footnotes
Gr. of.
Alex. + 'and stray not in her paths.'
Gr. ways.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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