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Proverbs 6

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 7
#### 1 | My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.
#### 2 | Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
#### 3 | Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
#### 4 | Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
#### 5 | That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
#### 6 | For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
#### 7 | And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
#### 8 | Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
#### 9 | In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
#### 10 | And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
#### 11 | She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
#### 12 | Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.
#### 13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:
#### 14 | Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.
#### 15 | Therefore came I forth to meet thee, Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
#### 16 | I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
#### 17 | I have perfumed my bed With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
#### 18 | Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
#### 19 | For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
#### 20 | He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.
#### 21 | With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
#### 22 | He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
#### 23 | Till an arrow strike through his liver; As a bird hasteth to the snare, And knoweth not that it is for his life.
#### 24 | Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, And attend to the words of my mouth.
#### 25 | Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
#### 26 | For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
#### 27 | Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

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