Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, And treasure 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! Yea, my teaching, 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 tablet of thy 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 near acquaintance;
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 wife of another, From the stranger, that useth smooth words.
to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
6 For through the window of my house, Through the lattice I was looking forth,
for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
7 And I saw 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 He was passing through the street near her corner, And was going the way to her house,
to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
9 At twilight, in the evening, At midnight, yea, in the thick darkness.
in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
10 And, behold, a woman met him, In the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart, —
and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
11 One noisy and unruly, Whose 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 Who is now in the streets, now in the broad places, And lurketh near every corner.
beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
13 She caught hold of him and kissed him, And with a shameless face said 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 “Thank-offerings have been upon me, And this day have I performed 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 spread my bed with coverlets, With tapestry of the thread of Egypt.
covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
17 I have sprinkled 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 caresses.
to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
19 For the good-man 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 purse of money with him; At the day of the full moon he will return.”
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 By her much fair speech she seduced him; By the smoothness of her lips she drew him away.
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 one in fetters to the chastisement of the 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 Till an arrow strike through his liver; —As a bird hasteneth into the snare, And knoweth not that it is laid 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 Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me, 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 thy heart turn aside 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 many are the wounded which she hath cast down; Yea, countless is the number of those slain by her.
for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
