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Proverbs - ch 7 v 1 - 20
- My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
- Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
- Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
- Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
- So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
- Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
- I saw among the young men one without sense,
- Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
- At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
- And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
- She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
- Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
- So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
- I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
- So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
- My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
- I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
- Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
- For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
- He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
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