Sprüche 7

1. ¹My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2. ²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.
3. ³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.
4. ⁴Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5. ⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6. ⁶For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
7. ⁷And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8. ⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house.
9. ⁹In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
10. ¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart.
11. ¹¹(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
12. ¹²Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
13. ¹³So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
14. ¹⁴I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.
15. ¹⁵Therefore I came forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
16. ¹⁶I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
17. ¹⁷I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18. ¹⁸Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
19. ¹⁹For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
20. ²⁰He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
21. ²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.
22. ²²He goeth after her quickly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
23. ²³Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24. ²⁴Now therefore hearken to me, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25. ²⁵Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
26. ²⁶For she hath cast down many wounded: yes, many strong men have been slain by her.
27. ²⁷Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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