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Proverbs 7
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| 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 table of thine heart. |
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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 the stranger which flattereth with her
words. |
(7:5-27)
A woman that seduces a man is evil -- the man
is just an innocent victim.
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| 7:6
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, |
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| 7:7
And 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, in the black and dark night: |
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| 7:10
And, behold, there met
him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. |
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| 7:11
(She is loud and
stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: |
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| 7:12
Now is she without, now
in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) |
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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. |
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I
have found thee. |
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I have decked my bed
with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. |
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| 7:17
I have perfumed my bed
with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
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Come, let us take
our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. |
"Come let us take our fill of love until the morning."
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| 7:19
For the goodman 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, and will come home at the day
appointed. |
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| 7:21
With her much fair
speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced
him. |
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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. |
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| 7:24
Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of
my mouth. |
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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. |
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| 7:27
Her house is the way
to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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