Proverbs 7
1 son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2 to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.
3 to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
4 to say to/for wisdom sister my you(f. s.) and kinsman to/for understanding to call: call to
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:
5 to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
6 for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
7 and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
8 to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9 in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10 and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11 to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12 beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
now without, now in the broadways, — and she lieth in wait 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
And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
14 sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid 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 came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
16 covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
17 to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
19 for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
For the husband is not at home, he is gone 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
he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
21 to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
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)
He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;
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
till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
24 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
And now, ye sons, hearken unto 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 thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
26 for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
