| 章 |
| 7:1 |
My son, keep my words, And treasure my commandments within you.
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| 7:2 |
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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| 7:3 |
Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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| 7:4 |
Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding [your] intimate friend;
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| 7:5 |
That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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| 7:6 |
For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
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| 7:7 |
And I saw among the naive, I discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense,
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| 7:8 |
Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,
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| 7:9 |
In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and [in] the darkness.
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| 7:10 |
And behold, a woman [comes] to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
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| 7:11 |
She is boisterous and rebellious; Her feet do not remain at home;
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| 7:12 |
[She is] now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.
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| 7:13 |
So she seizes him and kisses him, And with a brazen face she says to him:
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| 7:14 |
"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
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| 7:15 |
"Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
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| 7:16 |
"I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.
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| 7:17 |
"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
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| 7:18 |
"Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.
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| 7:19 |
"For the man is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;
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| 7:20 |
He has taken a bag of money with him, At full moon he will come home."
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| 7:21 |
With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.
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| 7:22 |
Suddenly he follows her, As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the discipline of a fool,
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| 7:23 |
Until an arrow pierces through his liver; As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that it [will cost him] his life.
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| 7:24 |
Now therefore, [my] sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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| 7:25 |
Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her paths.
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| 7:26 |
For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain.
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| 7:27 |
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.
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