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Proverbs
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My son, pay attention to my words. Treasure my commands that are within you.
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Obey my commands so that you may live. Follow my teachings just as you protect the pupil of your eye.
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Tie them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Say to wisdom, "You are my sister." Give the name "my relative" to understanding
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in order to guard yourself from an adulterous woman, from a loose woman with her smooth talk.
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From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
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I was looking at gullible people when I saw a young man without much sense among youths.
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He was crossing a street near her corner and walking toward her house
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in the twilight, in the evening, in the dark hours of the night.
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A woman with an ulterior motive meets him. She is dressed as a prostitute.
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She is loud and rebellious. Her feet will not stay at home.
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One moment she is out on the street, the next she is at the curb, on the prowl at every corner.
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She grabs him and kisses him and brazenly says to him,
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"I have some sacrificial meat. Today I kept my vows.
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That's why I came to meet you. Eagerly, I looked for you, and I've found you.
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I've made my bed, with colored sheets of Egyptian linen.
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I've sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Come, let's drink our fill of love until morning. Let's enjoy making love,
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because my husband's not home. He has gone on a long trip.
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He took lots of money with him. He won't be home for a couple of weeks."
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With all her seductive charms, she persuades him. With her smooth lips, she makes him give in.
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He immediately follows her like a steer on its way to be slaughtered, like a ram hobbling into captivity
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until an arrow pierces his heart, like a bird darting into a trap. He does not realize that it will cost him his life.
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Now, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words from my mouth.
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Do not let your heart be turned to her ways. Do not wander onto her paths,
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because she has brought down many victims, and she has killed all too many.
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Her home is the way to hell and leads to the darkest vaults of death.