Proverbs 7
1 My son! Keep my sayings, And lay up my commands with you.
son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of your eye.
to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
3 Bind them on your fingers, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
4 Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
5 To preserve you from a strange woman, From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For at a window of my house, I have looked out through my casement,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 And I see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he steps,
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 In the twilight—in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.
to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And she lies in wait near every corner)—
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 And she laid hold on him and kissed him, She has hardened her face and says to 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 “Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, Today I have completed my vows.
sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
15 Therefore I have come forth to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.
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 decked my bed [with] ornamental coverings, Carved works—cotton of Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I sprinkled my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
18 Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For the man is not in his house, He has gone on 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 has taken a bag of money in his hand, At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
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 She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, She forces him with the flattery of her lips.
to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
22 He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, And as a chain to the discipline of a fool,
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 Until an arrow splits his liver, As a bird has hurried to a snare, And has not known that it [is] for its 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 And now, you sons, listen to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways, Do not wander 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 many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
