Proverbs 7
1 My son! Keep my sayings, And lay up my commands with you.
fili mi custodi sermones meos et praecepta mea reconde tibi
2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of your eye.
serva mandata mea et vives et legem meam quasi pupillam oculi tui
3 Bind them on your fingers, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
liga eam in digitis tuis scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui
4 Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
dic sapientiae soror mea es et prudentiam voca amicam tuam
5 To preserve you from a strange woman, From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
ut custodiat te a muliere extranea et ab aliena quae verba sua dulcia facit
6 For at a window of my house, I have looked out through my casement,
de fenestra enim domus meae per cancellos prospexi
7 And I see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
et video parvulos considero vecordem iuvenem
8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he steps,
qui transit in platea iuxta angulum et propter viam domus illius graditur
9 In the twilight—in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
in obscuro advesperascente die in noctis tenebris et caligine
10 And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,
et ecce mulier occurrit illi ornatu meretricio praeparata ad capiendas animas garrula et vaga
11 She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.
quietis inpatiens nec valens in domo consistere pedibus suis
12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And she lies in wait near every corner)—
nunc foris nunc in plateis nunc iuxta angulos insidians
13 And she laid hold on him and kissed him, She has hardened her face and says to him,
adprehensumque deosculatur iuvenem et procaci vultu blanditur dicens
14 “Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, Today I have completed my vows.
victimas pro salute debui hodie reddidi vota mea
15 Therefore I have come forth to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.
idcirco egressa sum in occursum tuum desiderans te videre et repperi
16 I decked my bed [with] ornamental coverings, Carved works—cotton of Egypt.
intexui funibus lectum meum stravi tapetibus pictis ex Aegypto
17 I sprinkled my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
aspersi cubile meum murra et aloe et cinnamomo
18 Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
veni inebriemur uberibus donec inlucescat dies et fruamur cupitis amplexibus
19 For the man is not in his house, He has gone on a long journey.
non est enim vir in domo sua abiit via longissima
20 He has taken a bag of money in his hand, At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
sacculum pecuniae secum tulit in die plenae lunae reversurus est domum suam
21 She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, She forces him with the flattery of her lips.
inretivit eum multis sermonibus et blanditiis labiorum protraxit illum
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,
statim eam sequitur quasi bos ductus ad victimam et quasi agnus lasciviens et ignorans quod ad vincula stultus trahatur
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.
donec transfigat sagitta iecur eius velut si avis festinet ad laqueum et nescit quia de periculo animae illius agitur
24 And now, you sons, listen to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
nunc ergo fili audi me et adtende verba oris mei
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways, Do not wander in her paths,
ne abstrahatur in viis illius mens tua neque decipiaris semitis eius
26 For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
multos enim vulneratos deiecit et fortissimi quique interfecti sunt ab ea
