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Proverbs 7:1-11

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1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
2 Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth 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 through my casement,
6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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 went 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 black and dark night:
9 at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
10 Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
11 (She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home;
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