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Themes in Proverbs 7
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Themes in Proverbs 7

Proverbs 7:1

My son, keep my words
And treasure my commandments within you.

Proverbs 7:2

Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 7:4

Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

Proverbs 7:6

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

Proverbs 7:7

And I saw among the naive,
And discerned among the youths
A young man lacking sense,

Proverbs 7:8

Passing through the street near her corner;
And he takes the way to her house,

Proverbs 7:9

In the twilight, in the evening,
In the middle of the night and in the darkness.

Proverbs 7:10

And behold, a woman comes to meet him,
Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.

Proverbs 7:11

She is boisterous and rebellious,
Her feet do not remain at home;

Proverbs 7:12

She is now in the streets, now in the squares,
And lurks by every corner.

Proverbs 7:13

So she seizes him and kisses him
And with a brazen face she says to him:

Proverbs 7:14

“I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.

Proverbs 7:15

“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

Proverbs 7:16

“I have spread my couch with coverings,
With colored linens of Egypt.

Proverbs 7:17

“I have sprinkled my bed
With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Proverbs 7:18

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

Proverbs 7:19

“For my husband is not at home,
He has gone on a long journey;

Proverbs 7:20

He has taken a bag of money with him,
At the full moon he will come home.”

Proverbs 7:21

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

Proverbs 7:22

Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

Proverbs 7:23

Until an arrow pierces through his liver;
As a bird hastens to the snare,
So he does not know that it will cost him his life.

Proverbs 7:24

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 7:25

Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,
Do not stray into her paths.

Proverbs 7:26

For many are the victims she has cast down,
And numerous are all her slain.

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to Sheol,
Descending to the chambers of death.
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