Proverbs 7 : 1 (LITV)
My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
Proverbs 7 : 2 (LITV)
Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.
Proverbs 7 : 3 (LITV)
Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7 : 4 (LITV)
Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman,
Proverbs 7 : 5 (LITV)
so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words.
Proverbs 7 : 6 (LITV)
For I looked through my lattice, at the window of my house,
Proverbs 7 : 7 (LITV)
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,
Proverbs 7 : 8 (LITV)
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Proverbs 7 : 9 (LITV)
in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night.
Proverbs 7 : 10 (LITV)
And, behold, a woman came to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart;
Proverbs 7 : 11 (LITV)
she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not rest in her own house.
Proverbs 7 : 12 (LITV)
At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;
Proverbs 7 : 13 (LITV)
and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,
Proverbs 7 : 14 (LITV)
Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows;
Proverbs 7 : 15 (LITV)
so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.
Proverbs 7 : 16 (LITV)
I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.
Proverbs 7 : 17 (LITV)
I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
Proverbs 7 : 18 (LITV)
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses.
Proverbs 7 : 19 (LITV)
For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away.
Proverbs 7 : 20 (LITV)
He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house.
Proverbs 7 : 21 (LITV)
With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Proverbs 7 : 22 (LITV)
He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool,
Proverbs 7 : 23 (LITV)
until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.
Proverbs 7 : 24 (LITV)
Now, then, listen to me, O sons, and attend to the words of my mouth:
Proverbs 7 : 25 (LITV)
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.
Proverbs 7 : 26 (LITV)
For many are the wounded she has caused to fall; and plentiful all her slain ones.
Proverbs 7 : 27 (LITV)
The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the rooms of death.
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