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class="ln-group">keep my commandments and live;</span><br /><span class="indent">keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">bind them on your fingers;</span><br /><span class="indent">write them on the tablet of your heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”</span><br /><span class="indent">and call insight your intimate friend,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">to keep you from the forbidden<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew strange">a</a></sup></span> woman,</span><br /><span class="indent">from the adulteress<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the foreign woman">b</a></sup></span> with her smooth words.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For at the window of my house</span><br /><span class="indent">I have looked out through my lattice,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">and I have seen among the simple,</span><br /><span class="indent">I have perceived among the youths,</span><br /><span class="indent">a young man lacking sense,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">passing along the street near her corner,</span><br /><span class="indent">taking the road to her house</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">in the twilight, in the evening,</span><br /><span class="indent">at the time of night and darkness.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And behold, the woman meets him,</span><br /><span class="indent">dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew guarded in heart">c</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">She is loud and wayward;</span><br /><span class="indent">her feet do not stay at home;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">now in the street, now in the market,</span><br /><span class="indent">and at every corner she lies in wait.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">She seizes him and kisses him,</span><br /><span class="indent">and with bold face she says to him,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“I had to offer sacrifices,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew peace offerings">d</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and today I have paid my vows;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">so now I have come out to meet you,</span><br /><span class="indent">to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have spread my couch with coverings,</span><br /><span class="indent">colored linens from Egyptian linen;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,</span><br /><span class="indent">aloes, and cinnamon.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;</span><br /><span class="indent">let us delight ourselves with love.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For my husband is not at home;</span><br /><span class="indent">he has gone on a long journey;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he took a bag of money with him;</span><br /><span class="indent">at full moon he will come home.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With much seductive speech she persuades him;</span><br /><span class="indent">with her smooth talk she compels him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All at once he follows her,</span><br /><span class="indent">as an ox goes to the slaughter,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">or as a stag is caught fast<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew as a chain to discipline a fool">e</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="indent">till an arrow pierces its liver;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">as a bird rushes into a snare;</span><br /><span class="indent">he does not know that it will cost him his life.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And now, O sons, listen to me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and be attentive to the words of my mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Let not your heart turn aside to her ways;</span><br /><span class="indent">do not stray into her paths,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for many a victim has she laid low,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all her slain are a mighty throng.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Her house is the way to Sheol,</span><br /><span class="indent">going down to the chambers of death.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>strange</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">the</span> foreign woman</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">10</span> Hebrew <i>guarded in heart</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i>peace offerings</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Probable reading (compare Septuagint, Vulgate, Syriac); Hebrew <i>as a chain to discipline a fool</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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