Proverbs 7
1 [My] son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. [My] son, honor the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:
O son my keep words my and commandments my you will treasure with you.
2 keep my commandments, and you shall live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [your] eyes.
Keep commandments my and live and instruction my like [the] pupil of eyes your.
3 And bind them on your fingers, and write [them] on the table of your heart.
Bind them on fingers your write them on [the] tablet of heart your.
4 Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;
Say to wisdom [are] sister my you and a relative to discernment you will call.
5 that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering words.
To keep you from a woman strange from a foreign [woman] [who] words her she makes smooth.
6 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,
For at [the] window of house my through lattice my I looked down.
7 passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
And I saw among the naive people I observed among the sons a youth lacking of heart.
8 and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
[who] was passing by In the street beside corner her and [the] direction of house her he strode.
9 when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
At twilight in [the] evening of [the] day in [the] middle of [the] night and darkness.
10 and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
And there! a woman to meet him [the] garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart.
11 And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
[is] boisterous She and rebellious in house her not they stay feet her.
12 For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
A time - in the street a time in the open places and beside every corner she lies in wait.
13 Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to 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 a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
Sacrifices of peace offerings [are] on me this day I have paid vows my.
15 therefore I came forth to meet you, desiring your face; [and] I have found you.
There-fore I have come out to meet you to seek face your and I have found you.
16 I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
Coverings I have spread couch my colored fabrics linen of Egypt.
17 I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
I have sprinkled bed my myrrh aloes and cinnamon.
18 Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
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, but is gone on a long journey,
For not the husband [is] in house his he has gone on a journey from a distance.
20 having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
[the] bag of Money he has taken in hand his to [the] day of the full moon he will come house his.
21 So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
She turns him with [the] greatness of persuasiveness her with [the] seductiveness of lips her she impels him.
22 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:
[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 and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [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 then, [my] son, listen to 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 your heart turn aside to her ways:
May not it turn aside to ways her heart your may not it go astray in pathways her.
26 for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
For many slain [ones] she has made fall and [are] numerous all killed [men] her.
