Daily Audio Proverb March 07

Welcome to the Daily Audio Proverb, today is the 7th, and I'm Brian Harden from DailyAudioBible.com.

It's an honor and a pleasure to spend the next 5 minutes with you, reading from the ultimate

Book of Wisdom, the Book of Proverbs. Today being the 7th, we'll read the 7th chapter of

the Book of Proverbs from the contemporary English version.

My Son, pay close attention and don't forget what I tell you to do.

Obey me and you will live. Let my instructions be your greatest treasure.

Keep them at your fingertips and write them in your mind.

Let wisdom be your sister and make common sense your closest friend.

They will protect you from the flattering words of someone else's wife.

From the window of my house and once happened to see some foolish young men,

it was late in the evening, sometime after dark.

One of these young men turned the corner and was walking by the house of an unfaithful wife.

She was dressed fancy like a woman of the street with only one thing in mind.

She was one of those women who are loud and restless and never stay at home.

The walk straight after street waiting to trap a man.

She grabbed him, kissed him, and with no sense of shame, she said,

I had a sacrifice, a sacrifice, and there is enough meat left over for a beast.

So I came looking for you. And here you are.

The sheets on my bed are bright, colored cloth from Egypt.

And I have covered it with perfume made of merr, allos and cinnamon.

Let's go there and make love all night.

My husband is traveling and he's far away.

He took a lot of money along and he won't be back home before the middle of the month.

And so she tricked him with all of her sweet talk and her flattery.

Right away he followed her like an ox on the way to be slaughtered,

or like a fool on the way to be punished and killed with arrows.

He was no more than a bird rushing into a trap without knowing it would cost him his life.

My son, pay close attention to what I've said.

Don't even think about that kind of woman or let yourself be misled by someone like her.

Such a woman has caused the downfall and destruction of a lot of men.

Her house is a one way street leading straight down to the world of the dead.

Thank you, Heavenly Father, for these words of wisdom and the words of wisdom each and every day

as they encompass the totality of life as everything that we face and deal with in life

finds its way into this book of wisdom that you've left for us, the book of Proverbs.

We ask that these truths be planted deep in our hearts by the power of your Holy Spirit

and that they yield crops of wisdom and guidance and direction in our lives, in our families,

in all of our spheres of influence. We pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that is it for today. I'm Brian. I love you. And I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.