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Proverbs 7:1-11

1 Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions.

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

2 Do what I say and you'll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight - guard it!

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

3 Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart.

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

4 Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion.

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

5 They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress - that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.

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

6 As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters,

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

7 Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense

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

8 Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived, then turning up the path to her house.

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

9 It was dusk, the evening coming on, the darkness thickening into night.

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

10 Just then, a woman met him - she'd been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him.

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

11 Brazen and brash she was, restless and roaming, never at home,

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