Proverbs 7 (TFTU)

1 My son, heed my advice,and guard my instructions as you would [MET] guard a treasure. 2 Obey my commands,and as a result you will live a good life.Consider the things that I teach you to be very precious;guard them, just like you protect your eyes. 3 Tie my commands around your fingers in order that they will remind you to obey them.Always keep them in mind [MET]. 4 Love wisdom like you love your sister.Understand what is wise, and let that be as dear to you as members of your family. 5 If you are wise and if you understand what is wise [PRS], you will not sleep with an immoral woman;you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says. 6 One day, I was standing at the window inside my house,and I looked outside. 7 I saw some young men who did not have good sense.Among them was a man who was very foolish. 8 He crossed the street near the house of an immoral woman.He was walking along the path toward her house 9 at twilight, when it was getting dark [DOU]. 10 Suddenly the woman came out to see/meet him.She was dressed ◄seductively/like a prostitute►, wanting to persuade him to sleep with her. 11 She was a loud talker, one who was rebellious;she [SYN] never stayed at home. 12 She often went into the city streets and plazas/markets,waiting to trap some man. 13 When she saw that young man, she put her arms around him and kissed him.Then without being a bit ashamed, she said, 14 “I have some meat that is left over from a sacrifice that I made today to maintain fellowship with Yahweh;I have fulfilled/done what I promised him that I would do. 15 And now I have come out to meet/see you.I was searching for you, and now I have found you! 16 I have put on my bed sheets/bedspreads that were made from very fine linen that were imported {people brought} from Egypt. 17 I have sprinkled sweet-smelling perfumes on my bed—myrrh and aloes and cinnamon. 18 Come with me; let us enjoy having sex until tomorrow morning.Let’s enjoy making love. 19 My husband is not at home;he has gone away on a long journey. 20 He is carrying a wallet filled with money,and he will not return until the middle of this month.” 21 So she persuaded him by her enticing/tempting words.She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk. 22 And he went with her immediately,like an ox that was going to where it would be slaughtered,or like a deer (OR, a fool) that is stepping into a noose/trap, 23 where it will remain/stay until someone shoots an arrow into its liver and kills it. He was like a bird that flew into a trap.He did not know that ◄it would cost him his life/he would die as a result►. 24 My son, listen to what I say;pay careful attention to my words. 25 Do not allow anything to arouse/persuade you to go with an immoral woman like that.Do not go where she goes. 26 She has caused many men to be ruined;truly, no one can count the men she has killed. 27 The road to her house is the road to the grave.Those who enter her bedroom [PRS] will die as a result.

Proverbs 7 (TFTU)

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