Proverbs 7
1 son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My sonne, keepe my wordes, and hide my commandements with thee.
2 to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.
3 to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon 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 vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,
5 to/for to keep: guard you from woman be a stranger from foreign word her to smooth
That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.
6 for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
7 and to see: see in/on/with simple to understand in/on/with son: child youth lacking heart
And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,
8 to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house,
9 in/on/with twilight in/on/with evening day in/on/with pupil night and darkness
In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke.
10 and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart.
11 to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
(She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house.
12 beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery 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
So she caught him and kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him,
14 sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes.
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 meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.
16 covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
I haue deckt my bed with ornaments, carpets and laces of Egypt.
17 to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
I haue perfumed my bedde with myrrhe, aloes, and cynamom.
18 to go: come! [emph?] to quench beloved: love till [the] morning to rejoice in/on/with beloved
Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
19 for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
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 with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
21 to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
Thus with her great craft she caused him to yeelde, and with her flattering lips she entised 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)
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 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 a dart strike through his liuer, as a bird hasteth to the snare, not knowing that he is in danger.
24 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
Heare me now therefore, O children, and hearken to the wordes 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 decline to her wayes: wander thou not in her paths.
26 for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
For shee hath caused many to fall downe wounded, and the strong men are all slaine by her.
