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\c 7
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\v 1 My son, hold on to the words I speak to you,
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\q2 and store up in reserve all my orders.
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\q1
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\v 2 Obey my commands,
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\q2 and you will live.
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\q1 Consider my commands to be the most precious thing you possess.
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\v 3 Tie my commands to your fingers to remind you;
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\q2 write them on a tablet, like Moses wrote the law, in your inner self.
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\q1
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\v 4 Speak to wisdom and say to her, "You are my sister,"
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\q2 and speak to understanding and say, "You are a member of my family,"
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\q1
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\v 5 and they will keep you away from the woman who desires to commit adultery with you,
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\q2 the woman who would draw you to herself with her inviting words. Do not listen to her.
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\q1
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\v 6 Standing in my house, I looked out of a window,
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\q2 through the wooden shade,
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\v 7 and I saw some young men who had not been taught about right and wrong,
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\q2 and there was a young man there who had no good judgment.
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\v 8 He walked down the street near the house on the corner of the road,
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\q2 and he walked toward the house of the adultress.
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\v 9 It was the time of day when night and darkness were coming near.
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\v 10 That was where the woman who was seeking an affair met the young man, and she greeted him.
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\q2 She was dressed as prostitutes dress, with seductive and enticing clothes, and she knew why she was there.
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\v 11 She was loud and wayward, attracting attention.
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\q2 She does not stay in her own home—
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\v 12 she searches for a man as she walks along the streets one day, and another day she stands to find a man in the market;
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\q2 at every street corner she waits to trap a man.
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\v 13 When she sees the young man, she firmly takes hold of him, and then she kisses him.
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\q2 and without any shame and with great boldness, she says,
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\v 14 "Today I have meat in my house, because I made a sacrifice in the temple to promise friendship with Yahweh.
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\q2 In this way I kept my vows to Yahweh,
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\v 15 and now I have come out here to meet you.
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\q2 I was looking for you, and now I have found you!
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\v 16 I have put on my bed sheets—the finest colored linen fabrics from Egypt.
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\v 17 I have sprinkled perfumes on my bed—
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\q2 myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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\v 18 Come! Let us make love all night, until the morning comes.
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\q2 Let us enjoy ourselves with many ways of making love.
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\v 19 My husband is not at home;
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\q2 he has gone away on a long journey.
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\v 20 He filled a bag with money and took it with him;
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\q2 he will not come back until the middle of the month."
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\v 21 So she she convinces him with her persuasive words;
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\q2 because of her smooth and convincing talk, he gives in to what she wants to do.
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\v 22 He follows her inside—
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\q2 like an ox going to the place where its owner will slaughter it,
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\q2 or like a deer
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\q2
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\v 23 caught in a trap, where the hunter kills it by shooting an arrow into its inner parts.
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\q1 He is like a bird that flies into a trap
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\q2 without knowing that it will die as a result.
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\v 24 My sons, listen to me,
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\q2 and pay careful attention to what I say to you.
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\v 25 You must resist her from within you, from deep inside. Do not decide to do what you want and follow her.
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\q2 You must decide that you will never follow her where she goes.
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\v 26 She has caused many men to be ruined;
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\q2 truly, no one can count the men she destroyed—they are too many to count.
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\v 27 The road to her house is the road to the grave;
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\q2 it goes down to the place where the dead are kept.
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