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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">My son, keep my words,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">And lay up my commandments with thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.7.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Keep my commandments, and live;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">And my law as the apple of thine eye.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.7.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Bind them upon thy fingers,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">Write them upon the table of thine heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.7.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say unto wisdom, Thou </span><span class="add"><span class="content">art</span></span><span class="content"> my sister;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">And call understanding </span><span class="add"><span class="content">thy</span></span><span class="content"> kinswoman:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.7.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">That they may keep thee from the strange woman,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">From the stranger </span><span class="add"><span class="content">which</span></span><span class="content"> flattereth with her words.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.7.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">For at the window of my house</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">I looked through my casement,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.7.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">And beheld among the simple ones,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">I discerned among the youths,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">A young man void of understanding,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.7.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Passing through the street near her corner;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">And he went the way to her house,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.7.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In the twilight, in the evening,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">In the black and dark night:</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.7.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And, behold, there met him a woman</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">With</span></span><span class="content"> the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.7.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">(She </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> loud and stubborn;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">Her feet abide not in her house:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.7.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Now </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is she</span></span><span class="content"> without, now in the streets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">And lieth in wait at every corner.)</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.7.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">So she caught him, and kissed him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> with an impudent face said unto him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.7.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">I have</span></span><span class="content"> peace offerings with me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">This day have I payed my vows.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.7.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Therefore came I forth to meet thee,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">Diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.7.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">With carved </span><span class="add"><span class="content">works</span></span><span class="content">, with fine linen of Egypt.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.7.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I have perfumed my bed</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">With myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.7.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">Let us solace ourselves with loves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.7.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">For the goodman </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not at home,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">He is gone a long journey:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.7.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">He hath taken a bag of money with him,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span><span class="add"><span class="content">And</span></span><span class="content"> will come home at the day appointed.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.7.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">With her much fair speech she caused him to yield,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">With the flattering of her lips she forced him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.7.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">He goeth after her straightway,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">As an ox goeth to the slaughter,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">Or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.7.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Till a dart strike through his liver;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">As a bird hasteth to the snare,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">And knoweth not that it </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> for his life.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.7.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">And attend to the words of my mouth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.7.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Let not thine heart decline to her ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">Go not astray in her paths.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.7.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">For she hath cast down many wounded:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">Yea, many strong </span><span class="add"><span class="content">men</span></span><span class="content"> have been slain by her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.7.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Her house </span><span class="add"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the way to hell,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.7.27"><span class="content">Going down to the chambers of death.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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