KJ3 Literal Translation
Proverbs 7
Wisdom says: Keep My words and store them.
1My son, keep my words and treasure up My commands within you.
2Keep My commands and live, and keep My Law as the pupil of your eye.
3Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman,
5to keep you from the strange woman, from the foreign one with her flattering words.
6For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,
7and I saw in the ones of simplicity, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,
8passing through the street near her corner; and he stepped the way to her house,
9in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and darkness of night.
10And, behold, a woman to meet him, in the dress of one doing adultery, and a guarded heart;
11she is loud and stubborn; her feet do not abide in her own house.
12At this time she is outside, now in the streets, and she lies in wait at every corner;
13and she seizes him and kisses him; she hardens her face and says to him,
14Sacrifices of peace offerings are on me, today I have completed my vows;
15so I came out to meet you, early to seek your face, and I have found you.
16I have spread my couch with coverings, with striped cloths of Egyptian linen.
17I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with caresses.
19For my husband is not in his house; he is going in the way to a distant place.
20He has taken a bag of silver in his hand; at the day of the full moon he will enter his house.
21With her much persuasiveness she turned him aside; with the flattering of her lips she forced him,
22going after her at once, as an ox goes to the slaughter; or as one in fetters goes to the correction of a foolish one,
23until an arrow strikes through his liver, like a bird hastening to the snare, and not knowing that it is for his soul.
24And now listen to Me, O sons, and attend to the words of My mouth:
25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not go astray in her paths.
26For many are the wounded she has caused to fall, and numerous all the ones being slain by her.
27The ways of Sheol are in her house, leading down to the rooms of death.
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