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Proverbs 7:1-11

1 My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.

1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.

2 Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

2 Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

3 Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”

5 That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

6 For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,

6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.

7 And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,

7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

8 Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,

8 He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house

9 In the twilight, in the evening , In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

9 at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.

10 And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.

10 Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

11 She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;

11 (She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home;