Proverbs 7장
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My child, keep my words, and treasure my precepts,
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keep my precepts and you will live, keep my teaching as the apple of your eye.
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Bind these to your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Say to Wisdom, 'You are my sister!' Call Understanding your relation,
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to save yourself from the woman that belongs to another, from the stranger, with her seductive words.
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While I was at the window of my house, I was looking out through the lattice
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and I saw, among the callow youths, I noticed among the lads, one boy who had no sense.
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Going along the lane, near the corner where she lives, he reaches the path to her house,
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at twilight when day is declining, at dead of night and in the dark.
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And look, a woman is coming to meet him, dressed like a prostitute, false of heart.
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She is loud and brazen; her feet cannot rest at home.
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Once in the street, once in the square, she lurks at every corner.
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She catches hold of him, she kisses him, the bold-faced creature says to him,
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'I had to offer a communion sacrifice, I have discharged my vows today;
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that is why I came out to meet you, to look for you, and now I have found you.
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I have spread coverlets over my divan, embroidered stuff, Egyptian material,
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I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes and cinnamon.
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Come on, we'll make love as much as we like, till morning. Let us enjoy the delights of love!
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For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a very long journey,
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taking his moneybags with him; he will not be back till the moon is full.'
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With her persistent coaxing she overcomes him, lures him on with her wheedling patter.
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Forthwith he follows her, like an ox on its way to the slaughterhouse, like a madman on his way to the stocks,
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until an arrow pierces him to the liver, like the bird that dashes into the net without realising that its life is at stake.
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And now, son, listen to me, pay attention to the words I have to say:
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do not let your heart stray into her ways, or wander into her paths;
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she has done so many to death, and the strongest have all been her victims.
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Her house is the way to Sheol, the descent to the courts of death.
Proverbs 7장
