Proverbs 7
1 My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
3 Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
4 Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
5 That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait at every corner.
13 So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
16 I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
17 I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
19 For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
20 He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
21 Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
22 And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
23 Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
24 Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
And now, ye sons, hearken unto 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 thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
26 For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
