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Proverbs 7 📜 📕 ↷
Warnings about the Adulteress
1 My son keep my words, and my precepts hide with thee. Son,📜💬📚
2 keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thine eye:📜💬📚
3 bind it on thy fingers, write it in the tables of thy heart.📜💬📚
4 Say to wisdom, thou art my sister: & call prudence thy friend,📜💬📚
5 that she may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the foreigner which maketh her words sweet.📜💬📚
6 For out of the window of my house I looked out through the lattice,📜💬📚
7 and I see little ones, I behold a foolish youngman,📜💬📚
8 which passeth through the streets by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house,📜💬📚
9 in the dark the day being toward evening, in the darkness of the night, and dimness.📜💬📚
10 And behold the woman meeteth him in harlot's attire, prepared to deceive souls: babbling and wandering,📜💬📚
11 impatient of rest, nor able to consist in the house on her feet,📜💬📚
12 now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.📜💬📚
13 And taking the youngman she kisseth him, and with malapert countenance speaketh fair, saying:📜💬📚
14 I vowed victims for welfare, this day I have payed my vows.📜💬📚
15 Therefore I am come forth to meet thee, desirous to see, and I have found thee.📜💬📚
16 I have woven my bed with cords, I have adorned it with tapestry pictured out of AEgypt.📜💬📚
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.📜💬📚
18 Come let us be inebriated with breasts, and let us enjoy desired embracings, till the day appear.📜💬📚
19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.📜💬📚
20 he carried with him a bag of money: in the day of the full moon he will return to his house.📜💬📚
21 She entangled him with many words, and with flattery of lips drew him.📜💬📚
22 Immediately he followeth her as an oxe led to be a victim, & as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn as a fool to bonds,📜💬📚
23 till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.📜💬📚
24 Now therefore my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.📜💬📚
25 Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.📜💬📚
26 For she hath cast down many wounded, and all the most strong are slain by her.📜💬📚
27 Her house the ways of hell, penetrating to the inner parts of the death.📜💬📚
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