Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
2 Keep my commandments and live. Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.
4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
5 that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
9 in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
10 Look, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
11 She is loud and defiant. Her feet do not stay in her house.
(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
13 So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
14 "Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
15 Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.
Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18 Come, let's take our fill of loving until the morning. Let's solace ourselves with loving.
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
19 For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
20 He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon."
He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised him.
22 He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a stag leaping into a trap,
And he followed her straight wayes, as an oxe that goeth to the slaughter, and as a foole to the stockes for correction,
23 till an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn't know that it will cost his life.
Till a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
24 Now therefore, son, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.
Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes of my mouth.
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways. Do not go astray in her paths,
Let not thine heart decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
26 for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
