Proverbs 7
1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
[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:
2 Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [thine] eyes.
3 Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
And bind them on thy fingers, and write [them] on the table of thine heart.
4 Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;
5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
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 sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
13 So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; [and] I have found thee.
16 I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
17 I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
19 For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
20 He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
21 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised 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 And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
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 a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
24 Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
Now then, [my] son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:
26 For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
