Proverbs 7
1 My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets 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 prudence your friend.
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 and I see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night.
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling,
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 And overtaking the youth, she kisses him, and with a provocative face, she flatters him, saying:
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 vowed sacrifices for well-being. Today I have repaid my vows.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 Because of this, I have gone out to meet you, desiring to see 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 woven my bed with cords. I have strewn it with embroidered tapestries from Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloe, and cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For my husband is not in his house. He has gone away on a very 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. He will return to his house on the day of the full moon.”
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 She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 Immediately, he follows her, like an ox being led to the sacrifice, and like a lamb acting lasciviously, and not knowing that he is being drawn foolishly into chains,
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 the arrow pierces his liver. It is just as if a bird were to hurry into the snare. And he does not know that his actions endanger his own soul.
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 Therefore, my son, hear me now, 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 mind be pulled into her ways. And do not be deceived by 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 tossed aside many wounded, and some of those who were very strong have been slain by her.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
