Proverbs 7
1 [My] son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. [My] son, honour the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
3 And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
4 Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
5 that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
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 at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10 and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12 For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
13 Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
15 therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; [and] I have found you.
therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
16 I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
17 I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
19 For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
20 having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
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].
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained 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:
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
23 and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
24 Now then, [my] son, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not your heart turn aside to her ways:
Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
26 for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
