Proverbs 7

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My son, keep my words,

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Keep my commandments and live;

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Bind them upon thy fingers;

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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister;

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That they may keep thee from the strange woman,

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For at the window of my house

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And I beheld among the simple ones,

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Passing through the street near her corner;

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In the twilight, in the evening of the day,

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And, behold, there met him a woman

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(She is clamorous and wilful;

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Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,

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So she caught him, and kissed him,

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Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me;

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Therefore came I forth to meet thee,

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I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry,

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I have perfumed my bed

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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;

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For the man is not at home;

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He hath taken a bag of money with him;

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With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield;

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He goeth after her straightway,

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Till an arrow strike through his liver;

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Now therefore, my sons, hearken unto me,

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Let not thy heart decline to her ways;

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For she hath cast down many wounded:

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Her house is the way to Sheol,