1898 Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Proverbs 7
1 Solomon persuadeth to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom. 6 In an example of his own experience, he sheweth 10 the cunning of a whore, 22 and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton. 24 He dehorteth from such wickedness.

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My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

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

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Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

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Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'

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To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

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For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

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And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

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Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,

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In the twilightin the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

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And, lo, a woman to meet him(A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

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Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

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Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait)

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And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

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'Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.

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Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

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[With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved workscotton of Egypt.

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I sprinkled my bedmyrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

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For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

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A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

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She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

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He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

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Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.

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And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

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Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

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For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.

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The ways of Sheolher house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!