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Proverbs 7

Young's Literal Translation · 1898 · Old Testament · 31 chapters

Reading Proverbs chapter 7 in the Young's Literal Translation, public-domain text from 1898.

Verses 1–10

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

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

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

4 Say to wisdom, `My sister Thou art .' And cry to understanding, `Kinswoman!'

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

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

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

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

9 In the twilight--in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

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

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