Chapters
Proverbs (31 chapters)
Proverbs 7
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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee
from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her
words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young
man void of understanding,
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Passing through the
street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9
In the twilight, in the
evening, in the black and dark night:
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And, behold, there met
him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She is loud and
stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Now is she without, now
in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13
So she caught him, and
kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
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I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
15
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I
have found thee.
16
I have decked my bed
with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17
I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18
Come, let us take
our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19
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.
20
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day.
21
With her much fair
speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced
him.
22
He goeth after her
straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction
of the stocks;
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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.
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Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of
my mouth.
25
Let not thine heart
decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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For she hath cast down
many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
27
Her house is the way
to hell, going down to the chambers of death.