### Darby's English Translation

Proverbs 6

## The Proverbs

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| # Chapter 7
| My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
| Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
| Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
| Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
| that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
| For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
| and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
| passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
| in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
| And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
| She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
| now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.
| And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
| I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
| therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
| I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
| I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
| Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
| For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
| he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
| With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
| He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
| till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
| And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
| Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
| for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
| Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

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