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Proverbs 7:1-11

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

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

2 Obey my commands, and live; guard my teaching like the pupil 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.

4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister"; call understanding your kinswoman;

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

5 so that they can keep you from unknown women, from loose women with their seductive talk.

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

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

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

7 when I saw among the young men there, among those who don't think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense.

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

8 He crosses the street near her corner and continues on toward her house.

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

9 Dusk turns into evening, and finally night, dark and black.

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

10 Then a woman approaches him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.

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

11 She's the coarse, impulsive type, whose feet don't stay at home;

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