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 table 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 understanding 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 alien woman that maketh smooth 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 thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, 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 with the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
And there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.
11 She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house;
[is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and 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 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she 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 'Sacrifices of peace-offerings were due from 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 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 couch with coverlets, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.
Come! let us take our fill of love until the morning let us delight ourselves with love.
19 For my 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 bag of money with him; he will come home at 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 fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the blandishment of her lips she enticeth him away.
She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels him.
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox that goeth to the slaughter, or as one in fetters to 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 hasteneth to the snare — and knoweth not that it is at the cost of his 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 Now therefore, O ye children, 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; yea, a mighty host are all her slain.
For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her.
