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Proverbs 7 Verses
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Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions. |
2
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Do what I say and you'll live well. My teaching is as precious as your eyesight--guard it! |
3
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Write it out on the back of your hands; etch it on the chambers of your heart. |
4
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Talk to Wisdom as to a sister. Treat Insight as your companion. |
5
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They'll be with you to fend off the Temptress-- that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress. |
6
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As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters, |
7
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Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense |
8
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Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived, then turning up the path to her house. |
9
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It was dusk, the evening coming on, the darkness thickening into night. |
10
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Just then, a woman met him-- she'd been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him. |
11
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Brazen and brash she was, restless and roaming, never at home, |
12
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Walking the streets, loitering in the mall, hanging out at every corner in town. |
13
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She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly took his arm and said, |
14
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"I've got all the makings for a feast-- today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid, |
15
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So now I've come to find you, hoping to catch sight of your face--and here you are! |
16
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I've spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed, colorful imported linens. |
17
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My bed is aromatic with spices and exotic fragrances. |
18
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Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking! |
19
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My husband's not home; he's away on business, and he won't be back for a month." |
21
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Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech. |
22
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Before you know it, he's trotting behind her, like a calf led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured into ambush |
23
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and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over. |
24
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So, friends, listen to me, take these words of mine most seriously. |
25
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Don't fool around with a woman like that; don't even stroll through her neighborhood. |
26
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Countless victims come under her spell; she's the death of many a poor man. |
27
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She runs a halfway house to hell, fits you out with a shroud and a coffin. |