Proverbs 7
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| 1 | My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee. |
| 2 | Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye. |
| 3 | Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart. |
| 4 | Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman, |
| 5 | That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. |
| 6 | For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement, |
| 7 | And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding, |
| 8 | Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house, |
| 9 | In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night: |
| 10 | And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart. |
| 11 | (She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house: |
| 12 | Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.) |
| 13 | So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him, |
| 14 | I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes. |
| 15 | Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee. |
| 16 | I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt. |
| 17 | I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom. |
| 18 | Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues. |
| 19 | For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney. |
| 20 | He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. |
| 21 | With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. |
| 22 | He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks, |
| 23 | Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life. |
| 24 | Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
| 25 | Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths. |
| 26 | For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her. |
| 27 | Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death. |