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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
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Say to wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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And behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.