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Proverbs 7 :: New American Standard Bible 2020 (NASB20)

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The Lures of the Prostitute

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My son, keep my words

And treasure my commandments within you.

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Keep my commandments and live,

And my [fn]teaching as the [fn]apple of your eye.

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Bind them on your fingers;

Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

And call understanding your intimate friend,

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So that they may keep you from an [fn]adulteress,

From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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For at the window of my house

I looked out through my lattice,

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And I saw among the naive,

And discerned among the [fn]youths

A young man lacking [fn]sense,

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Passing through the street near her corner;

And he walks along the way to her house,

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In the twilight, in the [fn]evening,

In the [fn]middle of the night and the darkness.

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And behold, a woman comes to meet him,

Dressed as a prostitute and cunning of heart.

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She is boisterous and rebellious,

Her feet do not remain at home;

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She is now in the streets, now in the public squares,

And lurks by every corner.

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So she seizes him and kisses him,

[fn]And with a brazen face she says to him:

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[fn]I was due to offer peace offerings;

Today I have paid my vows.

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“Therefore I have come out to meet you,

To seek your presence diligently, and I have found you.

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“I have spread my couch with coverings,

With colored linens of Egypt.

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“I have sprinkled my bed

With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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“Come, let’s drink our fill of love until morning;

Let’s delight ourselves with caresses.

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“For [fn]my husband is not at home;

He has gone on a long journey.

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“He has taken a bag of money [fn]with him.

At the full moon he will come home.”

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With her many persuasions she entices him;

With her [fn]flattering lips she seduces him.

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Suddenly he follows her

As an ox goes to the slaughter,

Or as [fn]one walks in ankle bracelets to the discipline of a fool,

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Until an arrow pierces through his liver;

As a bird hurries to the snare,

So he does not know that it will cost him his life.

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Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,

And pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways,

Do not stray into her paths.

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For many are the [fn]victims she has brought to ruin,

And numerous are all those slaughtered by her.

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Her house is the way to Sheol,

Descending to the chambers of death.

NASB20 Footnotes
Or law
Lit pupil
Lit strange woman
Lit sons
Lit heart
Lit evening of the day
Lit pupil (of the eye)
Lit She makes bold her face and says
Lit Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me
Lit the man
Lit in his hand
Lit smooth
Or as a stag goes into a trap; as in some ancient versions, Heb is uncertain
Lit wounded
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