Proverbs 7
1 [My] son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. [My] son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [thine] eyes.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 And bind them on thy fingers, and write [them] on the table of thine heart.
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said 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 a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; [and] I have found thee.
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 spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
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, but is 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 having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
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 So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
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 and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [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 then, [my] son, hearken 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 Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:
not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
26 for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
