General Search for 'Proverbs 7:1-27' - Literal Translation

Proverbs 7:1

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My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.

Proverbs 7:2

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Keep my commands and live, and my law as the pupil of your eye.

Proverbs 7:3

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Tie them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 7:4

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Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinsman,

Proverbs 7:5

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so that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the alien with her flattering words.

Proverbs 7:6

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For I looked through my lattice, at the window of my house,

Proverbs 7:7

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and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,

Proverbs 7:8

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passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Proverbs 7:9

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in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night.

Proverbs 7:10

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And, behold, a woman came to meet him, with a harlot's dress, and a guarded heart;

Proverbs 7:11

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she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not rest in her own house.

Proverbs 7:12

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At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;

Proverbs 7:13

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and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,

Proverbs 7:14

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Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows;

Proverbs 7:15

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so I came out to meet you, earnestly to seek your face, and I have found you.

Proverbs 7:16

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I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.

Proverbs 7:17

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I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18

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Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses.

Proverbs 7:19

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For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away.

Proverbs 7:20

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He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house.

Proverbs 7:21

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With the sum of her persuasion she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Proverbs 7:22

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He goes after her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a fool,

Proverbs 7:23

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until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hastens to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.

Proverbs 7:24

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Now, then, listen to me, O sons, and attend to the words of my mouth:

Proverbs 7:25

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Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

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For many are the wounded she has caused to fall; and plentiful all her slain ones.

Proverbs 7:27

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The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the rooms of death.

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