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# Proverbs 7

[1](#verse-1) My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

[2](#verse-2) Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

[3](#verse-3) Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

[4](#verse-4) Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

[5](#verse-5) that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

[6](#verse-6) For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

[7](#verse-7) I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

[8](#verse-8) passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

[9](#verse-9) in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

[10](#verse-10) Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

[11](#verse-11) She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

[12](#verse-12) Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

[13](#verse-13) So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

[14](#verse-14) “Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. Today I have paid my vows.

[15](#verse-15) Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

[16](#verse-16) I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

[17](#verse-17) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

[18](#verse-18) Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

[19](#verse-19) For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

[20](#verse-20) He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

[21](#verse-21) With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

[22](#verse-22) He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

[23](#verse-23) Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

[24](#verse-24) Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

[25](#verse-25) Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

[26](#verse-26) for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

[27](#verse-27) Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

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