  THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON
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  7:1  My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

  7:2  Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of 
       thine eye.

  7:3  Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine 
       heart.

  7:4  Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding 
       [thy] kinswoman:

  7:5  That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger 
       [which] flattereth with her words.

  7:6  For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

  7:7  And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, 
       a young man void of understanding,

  7:8  Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way 
       to her house,

  7:9  In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

  7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an 
        harlot, and subtil of heart.

  7:11  (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

  7:12  Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at 
        every corner.)

  7:13  So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face 
        said unto him,

  7:14  [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

  7:15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy 
        face, and I have found thee.

  7:16  I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved 
        [works], with fine linen of Egypt.

  7:17  I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  7:18  Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us 
        solace ourselves with loves.

  7:19  For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:

  7:20  He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at 
        the day appointed.

  7:21  With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the 
        flattering of her lips she forced him.

  7:22  He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, 
        or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  7:23  Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the 
        snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.

  7:24  Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the 
        words of my mouth.

  7:25  Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her 
        paths.

  7:26  For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] 
        have been slain by her.

  7:27  Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of 
        death.




