Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 at twilight, as the day was fading into the dark of the night.
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
and to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and to kiss to/for him be strong face her and to say to/for him
14 “I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
16 I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
20 He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
bundle [the] silver: money to take: take in/on/with hand: to his to/for day [the] full moon to come (in): come house: home his
21 With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
to go: follow after her suddenly like/as cattle to(wards) slaughter to come (in): come and like/as anklet to(wards) discipline: bonds fool(ish)
23 until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare— not knowing it will cost him his life.
till to cleave arrow liver his like/as to hasten bird to(wards) snare and not to know for in/on/with soul: life his he/she/it
24 Now, my sons, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; do not stray into her paths.
not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
26 For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
