Proverbs 7:22
He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
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- Job 13:27 : 27 You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
- Jer 20:2 : 2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
- Acts 14:13 : 13 The priest of Jupiter, whose temple was in front of their city, brought oxen and garlands to the gates, and would have made a sacrifice along with the multitudes.
- Acts 16:24 : 24 who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
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20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
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23 Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
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7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
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10 Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
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25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
27 Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
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26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.
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24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.
25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.
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22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
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16 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here." as for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
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4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,
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6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
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16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
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19 A loving doe and a graceful deer-- let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
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3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,
4 But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.
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14 The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit: he who is under Yahweh's wrath will fall into it.
15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
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8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,
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32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!
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5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
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19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.
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23 He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.
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21 Folly is joy to one who is void of wisdom, but a man of understanding keeps his way straight.
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7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.
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7 A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
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8 If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
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9 Like a thornbush that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools.
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8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.
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32 He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.
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11 As a dog that returns to his vomit, so is a fool who repeats his folly.
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27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.