Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
O son my keep words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
Keep commandments my and live and instruction my like [the] pupil of eyes your.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
Bind them on fingers your write them on [the] tablet of heart your.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
Say to wisdom [are] sister my you and a relative to discernment you will call.
5 that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
To keep you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
For at [the] window of house my through lattice my I looked down.
7 and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
And I saw among the naive people I observed among the sons a youth lacking of heart.
8 passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
[who] was passing by In the street beside corner her and [the] direction of house her he strode.
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
At twilight in [the] evening of [the] day in [the] middle of [the] night and darkness.
10 And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
And there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.
11 She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
[is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her.
12 now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
A time - in the street a time in the open places and beside every corner she lies in wait.
13 And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
And she takes hold on him and she kisses him she has made firm face her and she said to him.
14 I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] on me this day I have paid vows my.
15 therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
There-fore I have come out to meet you to seek face your and I have found you.
16 I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
Come! let us take our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
For not the husband [is] in house his he has gone on a journey from a distance.
20 he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
[the] bag of Money he has taken in hand his to [the] day of the full moon he will come house his.
21 With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels him.
22 He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
[he is] walking Behind her suddenly like an ox [which] to [the] slaughter it goes and like an anklet to [the] chastening of a fool.
23 till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
Until it will pierce an arrow liver his as hurries a bird into a trap and not he knows that [is] for life his it.
24 And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
And therefore O children listen to me and be attentive to [the] words of mouth my.
25 Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
May not it turn aside to ways her heart your may not it go astray in pathways her.
26 for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her.
