| 章 |
| 7:1 |
My child, keep my words and store up my commandments with you;
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| 7:2 |
keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;
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| 7:3 |
bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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| 7:4 |
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
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| 7:5 |
that they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.
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| 7:6 |
For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
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| 7:7 |
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
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| 7:8 |
passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house
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| 7:9 |
in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.
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| 7:10 |
Then a woman comes toward him, decked out like a prostitute, wily of heart.
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| 7:11 |
She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;
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| 7:12 |
now in the street, now in the squares, and at every corner she lies in wait.
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| 7:13 |
She seizes him and kisses him, and with impudent face she says to him:
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| 7:14 |
"I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;
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| 7:15 |
so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you!
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| 7:16 |
I have decked my couch with coverings, colored spreads of Egyptian linen;
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| 7:17 |
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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| 7:18 |
Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
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| 7:19 |
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
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| 7:20 |
He took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon."
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| 7:21 |
With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
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| 7:22 |
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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| 7:23 |
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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| 7:24 |
And now, my children, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.
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| 7:25 |
Do not let your hearts turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
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| 7:26 |
for many are those she has laid low, and numerous are her victims.
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| 7:27 |
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
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