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Lay up my commandments within you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Look, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>"Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool to the correction of the stocks.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Now therefore, son, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="//biblehub.com/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.<p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><a href="//nheb.net/">New Heart English Bible</a><br />Edited by Wayne A. 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