THE PROVERBES. (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV â€” LARGE SCAN)

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CHAP. VII.

1 Solomon perswadeth to a sincere and kind familiaritie with wisedome. 6 In an example of his owne experience, he sheweth 10 the cunning of an whore, 22 And the desperate simplicitie of a yong wanton. 24 Hee dehorteth from such wickednesse.

¹ My sonne, keepe my words, and lay vp my commaundements with thee.

² Keepe my commandements, and liue: and my law as the apple of thine eye.²

³ Bind them vpon thy fingers, write them vpon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say vnto Wisedome, Thou art my sister, and call Understanding thy kinse woman,

⁵ That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.⁵

⁶ ¶ For at the windowe of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷ And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,⁷

⁸ Passing through the streete neere her corner, and he went the way to her house,

⁹ In the twilight in the euening, in the blacke and darke night:⁹

¹⁰ And behold, there met him a woman, with the attire of an harlot, and subtill of heart.

¹¹ (She is loud and stubburne, her feet abide not in her house:¹¹

¹² Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner.)

¹³ So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face, said vnto him,¹³

¹⁴ I haue peace offerings with me: this day haue I paid my vowes.¹⁴

¹⁵ Therefore came I forth to meete thee, diligently to seeke thy face, and I haue found thee.

¹⁶ I haue deckt my bed with couerings of tapestrie, with carued workes, with fine linnen of Egypt.

¹⁷ I haue perfumed my bed with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.

¹⁸ Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning, let vs solace our selues with loues.

¹⁹ For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.

²⁰ He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.²⁰

²¹ With much faire speech she caused him to yeeld, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

²² He goeth after her straightway, as an oxe goeth to the slaughter, or as a foole to the correction of the stocks,²²

²³ Til a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²⁴ ¶ Hearken vnto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁵ Let not thine heart decline to her wayes, goe not astray in her paths.

²⁶ For shee hath cast downe many wounded: yea many strong men haue bene slaine by her.

²⁷ Her house is the way to hell, going downe to the chambers of death.²⁷

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for Proverbs Chapter 7

² Deut.6.8. & 11.18. chap.3. 3.
⁵ Chap.5.3.
⁷ Heb. the sonnes.
⁹ Heb. in the euening of the day.
¹¹ Chap.9.13
¹³ Heb. shee strengthened her face and sayd.
¹⁴ Heb. peace offerings are vpon me.
²⁰ Heb. in his hand. , Or, the New moone.
²² Heb. suddenly.
²⁷ Chap.2. 18. & 5.5.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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