Proverbs 7

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1 My son! Keep my words and keep my commandments in your place.
2 Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching, as the pupil of your eyes.
3 Impose them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom: `You are my sister! ' And call the mind your relatives,
5 So that they guard you from the other's wife, from a stranger who softens her words.

6th Behold, I once looked out the window of my house, through my grate,
7th And saw among the inexperienced, noticed among the young people an unreasonable young man,
8 Crossing the square near its corner and walking along the road to her house,
9 In the twilight in the evening of the day, in the darkness of the night and in the darkness.
10 And, behold, a woman came to meet him, dressed as a harlot, with an insidious heart,
eleven Noisy and unbridled; Her feet do not live in her house:
12 Then on the street, then on the squares, and she builds coves for every corner.
13 She grabbed him, kissed him, and with a shameless face said to him:
14 "Peace offerings are with me: today I have made my vows;
15 Therefore, I went out to meet you, to find you, and - I found you;
16 By carpets, I cleaned my bed, the multicolored fabrics of Egypt;
17th I scented my bedroom with myrrh, aloe and cinnamon;
18 Come, we will revel in the tenderness until the morning, enjoy the love,
19 Because the husband is not at home: he went on a long journey;
20 He took a purse of silver with him; Will come home on the day of the full moon '.
21 With a lot of sweet words, she enticed him, with the softness of her mouth she mastered it.
22 Immediately he followed her, like a wolf goes to slaughter, and like a deer - to a shot,
23 Until the arrow pierces his liver; As a bird throws itself into snares, and does not know that they are for its destruction.

24 Now, children, listen to me and listen to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart fail in its way, walk not in its paths,
26th Because many wounded her, and many strong people were killed by her:
27th Her house is the way to hell, descending into the inner dwellings of death.

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