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href="/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Say unto wisdom: ‘Thou art my sister’,</div><div class="po2">And call understanding thy kinswoman;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>That they may keep thee from the strange woman,</div><div class="po2">From the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For at the window of my house</div><div class="po2">I looked forth through my lattice;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I beheld among the thoughtless ones,</div><div class="po2">I discerned among the youths,</div><div class="po2">A young man void of understanding,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Passing through the street near her corner,</div><div class="po2">And he went the way to her house;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the twilight, in the evening of the day,</div><div class="po2">In the blackness of night and the darkness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And, behold, there met him a woman</div><div class="po2">With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>She is riotous and rebellious,</div><div class="po2">Her feet abide not in her house;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places,</div><div class="po2">And lieth in wait at every corner.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So she caught him, and kissed him,</div><div class="po2">And with an impudent face she said unto him:</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>‘Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me;</div><div class="po2">This day have I paid my vows.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore came I forth to meet thee,</div><div class="po2">To seek thy face, and I have found thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I have decked my couch with coverlets,</div><div class="po2">With striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I have perfumed my bed</div><div class="po2">With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning;</div><div class="po2">Let us solace ourselves with loves.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For my husband is not at home,</div><div class="po2">He is gone a long journey;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He hath taken the bag of money with him;</div><div class="po2">He will come home at the full moon.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield,</div><div class="po2">With the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He goeth after her straightway,</div><div class="po2">As an ox that goeth to the slaughter,</div><div class="po2">Or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Till an arrow strike through his liver;</div><div class="po2">As a bird hasteneth to the snare—</div><div class="po2">And knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me,</div><div class="po2">And attend to the words of my mouth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let not thy heart decline to her ways,</div><div class="po2">Go not astray in her paths.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For she hath cast down many wounded;</div><div class="po2">Yea, a mighty host are all her slain.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Her house is the way to the nether-world,</div><div class="po2">Going down to the chambers of death.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO 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