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Read Full Chapter (Proverbs 7) Proverbs 7:7-9 KJV
"And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:"
Proverbs 7:7-9 in Context (Verses 4–12 KJV)
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Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,*
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Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:*
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And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)