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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Keep my commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Strap them to your fingers and engrave them on the tablet of your heart. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Say to wisdom, "You're my sister!" and call understanding your close relative, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5so they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive words. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For from a window in my house I peered through the lattice work, |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7and I noticed among the naïve— that is, I discerned among the youths— a senseless young man. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward her house |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part of the night. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Look! A woman makes her way to meet him, dressed as a prostitute and intending to entrap him. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11She is brazen and defiant— her feet don't remain at home. |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So she grabs hold of him and kisses him, with a brazen face she speaks to him, |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"I have given my peace offerings, and today I fulfilled my vows. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore, I've come out to meet you, I've looked just for you, and I found you! |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I've decorated my bed with new coverings— embroidered linen from Egypt. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I've perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Come, let's make love until dawn; let's comfort ourselves with love, |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19because my husband isn't home. He left on a long trip. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He took a fist full of cash and he'll return home in a month." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22All of a sudden he follows her like an ox fit for slaughter or like a fool fit for a trap |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23until an arrow pierces his liver. As a bird darts into a snare, he doesn't realize his fatal decision. |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24So listen to me, my sons, and pay attention to what I have to say. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Don't be led astray by her lifestyle, and don't imitate her behavior. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26For many are the victims whom she has conquered, and many are her slain. |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Her house leads to Sheol, descending to death's catacombs. |
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