Proverbs 7
1 son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
[My] son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. [My] son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:
2 to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and [keep] my words as the pupils of [thine] eyes.
3 to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
And bind them on thy fingers, and write [them] on the table of thine heart.
4 to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;
5 to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.
6 for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
7 and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
8 to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
and speaking, in the dark of the evening,
9 in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
when there happens [to be] the stillness of night and of darkness:
10 and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.
11 to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
And she is fickle, and debauched, and her feet abide not at home.
12 beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
For at one time she wanders without, and at [another] time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.
13 and to strengthen: hold in/on/with him and to kiss to/for him be strong face her and to say to/for him
Then she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said to him,
14 sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
I have a peace-offering; today I pay my vows:
15 upon so to come out: come to/for to encounter: meet you to/for to seek face of your and to find you
therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; [and] I have found thee.
16 covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
I have spread my bed with sheets, and I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt.
17 to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, and my house with cinnamon.
18 to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
Come, and let us enjoy love until the morning; come, and let us embrace in love.
19 for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
20 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
having taken in his hand a bundle of money: after many days he will return to his house.
21 to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
So with much converse she prevailed on him to go astray, and with the snares of her lips forced him from [the right path].
22 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)
And he followed her, being gently led on, and [that] as an ox is led to the slaughter, and as a dog to bonds, or as a hart shot in the liver with an arrow:
23 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
and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for [his] life.
24 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
Now then, [my] son, hearken to me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 not to turn aside to(wards) way: conduct her heart your not to go astray in/on/with path her
Let not thine heart turn aside to her ways:
26 for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
for she has wounded and cast down many, and those whom she has slain are innumerable.
