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Proverbs 7 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:1 - My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:2 - Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:3 - Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:4 - Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou art.' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:5 - To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:6 - For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:7 - And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:8 - Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way to her house he doth step,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:9 - In the twilight -- in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:10 - And, lo, a woman to meet him -- (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:11 - Noisy she is, and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:12 - Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:13 - And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:14 - 'Sacrifices of peace-offerings are by me, To-day I have completed my vows.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:15 - Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:16 - With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works -- cotton of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:17 - I sprinkled my bed -- myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:18 - Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:19 - For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:20 - A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:21 - She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:22 - He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:23 - Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:24 - And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:25 - Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:26 - For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 7:27 - The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
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