Book 20 : PROVERBS - Chapter 007
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of
thine eye
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine
heart
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding
thy kinswoman
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
stranger which flattereth with her words
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the
youths, a young man void of understanding
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the
way to her house
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night
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And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an
harlot, and subtil of heart
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(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house
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Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at
every corner.
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So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face
said unto him
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I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy
face, and I have found thee
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved
works, with fine linen of Egypt
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon
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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us
solace ourselves with loves
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For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey
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He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at
the day appointed
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the
flattering of her lips she forced him
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He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the
slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks
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Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the
snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life
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Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to
the words of my mouth
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her
paths
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For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have
been slain by her
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Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of
death
Book 20 : PROVERBS - Chapter 007
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