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== Mishlei (Book of Proverbs), Chapter 7 ==

<named id="1"/>1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

<named id="2"/>2 Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye.

<named id="3"/>3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

<named id="4"/>4 Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman;

<named id="5"/>5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.

<named id="6"/>6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

<named id="7"/>7 And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

<named id="8"/>8 Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;

<named id="9"/>9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

<named id="10"/>10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.

<named id="11"/>11 She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house;

<named id="12"/>12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.

<named id="13"/>13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said unto him:

<named id="14"/>14 'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from me; this day have I paid my vows.

<named id="15"/>15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

<named id="16"/>16 I have decked my couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

<named id="17"/>17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

<named id="18"/>18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.

<named id="19"/>19 For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

<named id="20"/>20 He hath taken the bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.'

<named id="21"/>21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.

<named id="22"/>22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;

<named id="23"/>23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteneth to the snare-- and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his life.

<named id="24"/>24 Now therefore, O ye children, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

<named id="25"/>25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

<named id="26"/>26 For she hath cast down many wounded; yea, a mighty host are all her slain.

<named id="27"/>27 Her house is the way to the nether-world, going down to the chambers of death.

== See also ==
* [[Mishlei 6|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Mishlei 7 Commentaries]]
* [[Mishlei 8|Next Chapter]]

== References ==
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