June 5: Proverbs 7–9

: Proverbs 7–9

: Proverbs 7–9 Proverbs 7–9

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Proverbs 7–9 (Listen)
Warning Against the Adulteress

7   My son, keep my words    and treasure up my commandments with you;  keep my commandments and live;    keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;  bind them on your fingers;    write them on the tablet of your heart.  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”    and call insight your intimate friend,  to keep you from the forbidden1 woman,    from the adulteress2 with her smooth words.

  For at the window of my house    I have looked out through my lattice,  and I have seen among the simple,    I have perceived among the youths,    a young man lacking sense,&nb