Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
and to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and to kiss to/for him be strong face her and to say to/for him
14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
bundle [the] silver: money to take: take in/on/with hand: to his to/for day [the] full moon to come (in): come house: home his
21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
to go: follow after her suddenly like/as cattle to(wards) slaughter to come (in): come and like/as anklet to(wards) discipline: bonds fool(ish)
23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
till to cleave arrow liver his like/as to hasten bird to(wards) snare and not to know for in/on/with soul: life his he/she/it
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
