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My son keep my words and lay up my commandments with thee
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Keep my commandments and live and my law as the apple of thine eye
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Bind them upon thy fingers write them upon the table of thine heart
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Say unto wisdom Thou art my sister and call understanding thy kinswoman
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman from the stranger which flattereth with her words
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For at the window of my house I looked through my casement
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And beheld among the simple ones I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding
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Passing through the street near her corner and he went the way to her house
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In the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night
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And behold there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot and subtil of heart
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She is loud and stubborn her feet abide not in her house
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Now is she without now in the streets and lieth in wait at every corner
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So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said unto him
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I have peace offerings with me this day have I payed my vows
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Therefore came I forth to meet thee diligently to seek thy face and I have found thee
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I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry with carved works with fine linen of Egypt
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I have perfumed my bed with myrrh aloes and cinnamon
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Come let us take our fill of love until the morning let us solace ourselves with loves
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For the goodman is not at home he is gone a long journey
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He hath taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed
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With her much fair speech she caused him to yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him
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He goeth after her straightway as an ox goeth to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks
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Till a dart strike through his liver as a bird hasteth to the snare and knoweth not that it is for his life
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Hearken unto me now therefore O ye children and attend to the words of my mouth
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Let not thine heart decline to her ways go not astray in her paths
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For she hath cast down many wounded yea many strong men have been slain by her
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Her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death