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and my law as the pupil of thine eyes.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet of thine heart.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>To watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For in the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And I shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Passing in the street near her corner; and he will step the way of her house,<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick darkness:<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And behold, a woman to his meeting, the attire of a harlot, and hidden of heart.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>She being noisy and perverse; her feet will not dwell in her house:<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>One time without, one time in the broad ways; and she will lie in wait near every corner.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>She laid hold upon him and kissed to him; she strengthened her face, and she will say to him,<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Sacrifices of peace upon me: today I repaid my vows.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For this, I shall come forth to thy meeting, to seek thy face, and I shall find thee.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>With adornings I spread my bed, variegated with thread of Egypt.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I sprinkled my bed with myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Come, we will be satisfied with loves till the morning: we will rejoice ourselves with loves.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For the man not in the house, he went in a way far off.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He took a bundle of silver in his hand; he will come to his house the day of the full moon.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>He went after her suddenly as the ox will go to the slaughter, and as the fetter for the correction of the foolish.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Till an arrow shall cleave his liver; as a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And now, ye sons, hear to me, and attend to the sayings of my mouth.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For she cast down many wounded, and the strong all being slain by her.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/proverbs/7-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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