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keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," And call understanding your intimate friend;<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">She is loud and wayward; her feet do not stay at home;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">now in the street, now in the market, and at every corner she lies in wait.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">She seizes him and kisses him, and with bold face she says to him,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have spread my couch with coverings, colored linens from Egyptian linen;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning; Let us delight ourselves with caresses.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Come, let us take our fill of love till morning; let us delight ourselves with love.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">He has taken a bag of money with him, At the full moon he will come home."<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">he took a bag of money with him; at full moon he will come home.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Suddenly he follows her As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">till an arrow pierces its liver; as a bird rushes into a snare; he does not know that it will cost him his life.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And now, O sons, listen to me, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways, Do not stray into her paths.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let not your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For many are the victims she has cast down, And numerous are all her slain.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">for many a victim has she laid low, and all her slain are a mighty throng.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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