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| 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. |
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| 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye. |
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| 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon 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 unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman: |
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| 5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words. |
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| 6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice, |
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| 7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding, |
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| 8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, |
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| 9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness. |
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| 10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. |
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| 11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house: |
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| 12 now without, now in the broadways, --and she lieth in wait at every corner. |
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| 13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, |
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| 14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows: |
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| 15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee. |
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| 16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt; |
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| 17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. |
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| 18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves. |
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| 19 For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; |
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| 20 he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon. |
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| 21 With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him. |
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| 22 He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool; |
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| 23 till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life. |
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| 24 And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth. |
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| 25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths: |
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| 26 for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong. |
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| 27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. |
Is the way to hell – The path to sheol, oblivion, death. E367; R2599:4, R828:6
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