Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
υἱέ φύλασσε ἐμοὺς λόγους τὰς δὲ ἐμὰς ἐντολὰς κρύψον παρὰ σεαυτῷ υἱέ τίμα τὸν κύριον καὶ ἰσχύσεις πλὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ μὴ φοβοῦ ἄλλον
2 Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
φύλαξον ἐμὰς ἐντολάς καὶ βιώσεις τοὺς δὲ ἐμοὺς λόγους ὥσπερ κόρας ὀμμάτων
3 Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the table of thine heart.
περίθου δὲ αὐτοὺς σοῖς δακτύλοις ἐπίγραψον δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ πλάτος τῆς καρδίας σου
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
εἶπον τὴν σοφίαν σὴν ἀδελφὴν εἶναι τὴν δὲ φρόνησιν γνώριμον περιποίησαι σεαυτῷ
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
ἵνα σε τηρήσῃ ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀλλοτρίας καὶ πονηρᾶς ἐάν σε λόγοις τοῖς πρὸς χάριν ἐμβάληται
6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα
7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
ὃν ἂν ἴδῃ τῶν ἀφρόνων τέκνων νεανίαν ἐνδεῆ φρενῶν
8 Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;
παραπορευόμενον παρὰ γωνίαν ἐν διόδοις οἴκων αὐτῆς
9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
καὶ λαλοῦντα ἐν σκότει ἑσπερινῷ ἡνίκα ἂν ἡσυχία νυκτερινὴ ᾖ καὶ γνοφώδης
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.
ἡ δὲ γυνὴ συναντᾷ αὐτῷ εἶδος ἔχουσα πορνικόν ἣ ποιεῖ νέων ἐξίπτασθαι καρδίας
11 She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
ἀνεπτερωμένη δέ ἐστιν καὶ ἄσωτος ἐν οἴκῳ δὲ οὐχ ἡσυχάζουσιν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
χρόνον γάρ τινα ἔξω ῥέμβεται χρόνον δὲ ἐν πλατείαις παρὰ πᾶσαν γωνίαν ἐνεδρεύει
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face she said unto him:
εἶτα ἐπιλαβομένη ἐφίλησεν αὐτόν ἀναιδεῖ δὲ προσώπῳ προσεῖπεν αὐτῷ
14 Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.
θυσία εἰρηνική μοί ἐστιν σήμερον ἀποδίδωμι τὰς εὐχάς μου
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
ἕνεκα τούτου ἐξῆλθον εἰς συνάντησίν σοι ποθοῦσα τὸ σὸν πρόσωπον εὕρηκά σε
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
κειρίαις τέτακα τὴν κλίνην μου ἀμφιτάποις δὲ ἔστρωκα τοῖς ἀπ’ Αἰγύπτου
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
διέρραγκα τὴν κοίτην μου κρόκῳ τὸν δὲ οἶκόν μου κινναμώμῳ
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.
ἐλθὲ καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν φιλίας ἕως ὄρθρου δεῦρο καὶ ἐγκυλισθῶμεν ἔρωτι
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
οὐ γὰρ πάρεστιν ὁ ἀνήρ μου ἐν οἴκῳ πεπόρευται δὲ ὁδὸν μακρὰν
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.
ἔνδεσμον ἀργυρίου λαβὼν ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ δῑ ἡμερῶν πολλῶν ἐπανήξει εἰς τὸν οἶκον αὐτοῦ
21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.
ἀπεπλάνησεν δὲ αὐτὸν πολλῇ ὁμιλίᾳ βρόχοις τε τοῖς ἀπὸ χειλέων ἐξώκειλεν αὐτόν
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as fetters to the correction of the fool;
ὁ δὲ ἐπηκολούθησεν αὐτῇ κεπφωθείς ὥσπερ δὲ βοῦς ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἄγεται καὶ ὥσπερ κύων ἐπὶ δεσμοὺς
23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
ἢ ὡς ἔλαφος τοξεύματι πεπληγὼς εἰς τὸ ἧπαρ σπεύδει δὲ ὥσπερ ὄρνεον εἰς παγίδα οὐκ εἰδὼς ὅτι περὶ ψυχῆς τρέχει
24 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
νῦν οὖν υἱέ ἄκουέ μου καὶ πρόσεχε ῥήμασιν στόματός μου
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
μὴ ἐκκλινάτω εἰς τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἡ καρδία σου
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
πολλοὺς γὰρ τρώσασα καταβέβληκεν καὶ ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὓς πεφόνευκεν
