“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 table of thine 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
stranger [which] flattereth with her words.”
“6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And
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, in the
black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the
attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She [is] loud and
stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now [is she] without, now
in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught
him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him, 14 [I
have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I
have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,
with carved [works], with fine linen 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
goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a
bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed. 21
With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering
of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox
goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23
Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare,
and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.”
“24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the
words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not
astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many
strong [men] have been slain by her. 27 Her house [is] the way to hell,
going down to the chambers of death.” (Proverbs 7:1-27 AV)
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