Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
[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:
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
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,
7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
12 now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; [and] I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
19 For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
20 he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
21 With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
22 He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
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:
23 till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
24 And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Now then, [my] son, listen to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
Let not your heart turn aside to her ways:
26 for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
