| 章 |
| 7:1 |
My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
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| 7:2 |
Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
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| 7:3 |
Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
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| 7:4 |
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
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| 7:5 |
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From he foreigner that flattereth with her words.
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| 7:6 |
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
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| 7:7 |
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
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| 7:8 |
Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
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| 7:9 |
In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
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| 7:10 |
And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
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| 7:11 |
She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
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| 7:12 |
Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.
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| 7:13 |
So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:
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| 7:14 |
Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
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| 7:15 |
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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| 7:16 |
I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
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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 the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
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| 7:19 |
For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
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| 7:20 |
He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.
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| 7:21 |
With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
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| 7:22 |
He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
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| 7:23 |
Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
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| 7:24 |
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
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| 7:25 |
Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
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| 7:26 |
For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
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| 7:27 |
Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
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