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Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Warnings about the Adulteress<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>My sonne, kepe my wordes, & laye vp my comaundemetes by the.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Kepe my comaundemetes & my lawe, eue as the aple of thine eye, & thou shalt lyue.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bynde them vpon thy fyngers, & wryte the in the table of thine hert.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Saye vnto wysdome: thou art my sister, and call vnderstondinge thy kynswoman:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that she maye kepe ye fro ye strauge woma, & fro ye harlot which geueth swete wordes.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For out of the wyndowe of my house I loked thorow the trelies,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>& behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>goinge ouer the stretes, by the corner in the waye towarde the harlottes house<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>in the twylight of of the euenynge, when it begane now to be night and darcke.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And beholde, there mett him a woma in an harlottes apparell<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>(a disceatfull, waton & an vnstedfast woma: whose fete coude not abyde in ye house,<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>she caught ye yoge ma, kyssed him & was not ashamed, sayege:<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I had a vowe to paye, & this daye I perfourme it.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therfore came I forth to mete the, that I might seke thy face, and so I haue founde the.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I haue deckte my bed with coueringes & clothes of Egipte.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My bed haue I made to smell of Myrre, Aloes and Cynamom.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come, let vs lye together, & take oure pleasure till it be daye light.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He hath taken the bagg of moneye with him, who can tell whe he cometh home?<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thus with many swete wordes she ouercame him, and with hir flateringe lippes she wanne him.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Immediatly he foloweth her, as it were an oxeled to the slaughter (and like as it were to the stockes, where fooles are punyshed)<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>so longe till she hath wounded his lyuer with hir darte: like as yf a byrde haisted to the snare, not knowinge that the parell of his life lyeth there vpo.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Heare me now therfore (o my sonne) and marcke the wordes of my mouth.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Let not thine herte wandre in hir wayes, & be not thou disceaued in hir pathes.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For many one hath she wouded and cast downe, yee many a stronge ma hath she slayne.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hir house is the waye vnto hell, where men go downe to the chambers of death.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Coverdale Bible of 1535<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../proverbs/6.htm" 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