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\c 7
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\q
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\v 1 My son, keep my words
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\q and store up my commands within yourselves.
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\q
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\v 2 Keep my commands and live
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\q and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.
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\q
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\v 3 Tie them on your fingers;
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\q write them on the tablet of your heart.
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\q
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\v 4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,"
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\q and call understanding your kinsman,
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\q
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\v 5 in order to keep yourself from the unlawful woman,
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\q from the female stranger with her smooth words.
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\q
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\v 6 At the window of my house
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\q I was looking out through the lattice.
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\q
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\v 7 I looked at the inexperienced people,
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\q and I noticed among the young men
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\q a youth who had no sense.
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\q
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\v 8 That young man passed down the street near her corner,
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\q and he went toward her house.
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\q
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\v 9 It was twilight, in the evening of the day,
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\q at the time of night and darkness.
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\q
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\v 10 There a woman met him,
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\q dressed like a prostitute; she knew why she was there.
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\q
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\v 11 She is loud and wayward,
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\q her feet do not stay at home—
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\v 12 now in the streets, now in the market,
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\q at every corner she lies in wait.
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\v 13 So she grabs him and kisses him,
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\q with a bold face she says to him,
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\v 14 "I made my peace offering today,
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\q I paid my vows,
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\q
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\v 15 so came I out to meet you,
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\q to eagerly seek your face and I have found you.
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\q
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\v 16 I have spread coverings on my bed,
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\q colored linens from Egypt.
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\v 17 I have perfumed my bed
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\q with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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\q
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\v 18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;
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\q let us take great pleasure in different acts of love-making.
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\q
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\v 19 My husband is not at home;
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\q he is away on a long journey.
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\v 20 He took a bag of money with him;
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\q he will return on the day of the full moon."
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\v 21 With her seductive talk she persuades him,
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\q and with her smooth talk she compels him.
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\q
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\v 22 He walks after her
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\q like an ox going to the slaughter,
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\q or like a deer caught in a trap
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\q
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\v 23 until an arrow pierces through its liver—
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\q or like bird rushing into a snare,
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\q not knowing it will cost him his life.
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\v 24 And now, my sons, listen to me;
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\q pay attention to what I say.
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\v 25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways;
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\q do not go astray into her paths.
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\q
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\v 26 She has brought down many victims;
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\q they cannot be counted.
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\q
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\v 27 Her house is on the road to Sheol;
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\q it goes down to the rooms of death.
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