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| 1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee. |
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| 2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye. |
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| 3 Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. |
Write them – Storing the memory with heavenly "food," a verse a day, or week, should not be neglected. R2039:1
Of thine heart – Not only our heads. R2093:6
Implying the study of ourselves as well as of the divine Word that we may know just what portions of the Word apply to our individual present necessities. R2094:1*
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| 4 Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!' |
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| 5 To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings. |
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| 6 For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out, |
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| 7 And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding, |
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| 8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step, |
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| 9 In the twilight in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness. |
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| 10 And, lo, a woman to meet him (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart, |
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| 11 Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not. |
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| 12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) |
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| 13 And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him, |
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| 14 'Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows. |
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| 15 Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee. |
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| 16 [With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works cotton of Egypt. |
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| 17 I sprinkled my bed myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
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| 18 Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves. |
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| 19 For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. |
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| 20 A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.' |
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| 21 She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him. |
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| 22 He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool, |
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| 23 Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life. |
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| 24 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth. |
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| 25 Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths, |
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| 26 For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones. |
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| 27 The ways of Sheol her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death! |
Is the way to hell – The path to sheol, oblivion, death. E367; R2599:4, R828:6
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