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Proverbs 7:5-17 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

5. In order to guard yourself from an adulteress, from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.

6. For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down.

7. And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking sense,

8. passing on the street at her corner, and he takes the road to her house,

9. at twilight, at the day’s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.

10. Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and a secret heart.

11. She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at her house.

12. Now in the street, now in the square, at every corner she lies in wait.

13. She took hold of him and kissed him. Her face was impudent, and she said to him,

14. “Sacrifices of peace offerings are upon me; today I completed my vows.

15. So I have come out to meet you, to seek your face, and I have found you.

16. With coverings I have adorned my couch, spreads of the linen of Egypt;

17. I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

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