The Proverbs 7

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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 ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain