Proverbs 7
1 son: child my to keep: guard word my and commandment my to treasure with you
My son, observe my sayings, and my commandments must thou treasure up with thee.
2 to keep: guard commandment my and to live and instruction my like/as pupil eye your
Observe my commandments, and live: and my teaching as the apple of thy eyes.
3 to conspire them upon finger your to write them upon tablet heart your
Bind them around thy fingers, write them upon the table 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 understanding 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 an adulterous woman, from an alien that useth flattering speeches.
6 for in/on/with window house: home my about/through/for lattice my to look
For through the window of my house, through my lattice did I [once] look out,
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 youths, a lad void of sense;
8 to pass in/on/with street beside corner her and way: road house: home her to march
He was passing through the market-place near her corner; and he stepped along on 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 depth of the night and when it was dark:
10 and behold woman to/for to encounter: meet him garment to fornicate and to watch heart
And, behold, a woman came to meet him with the attire of a harlot, and obdurate of heart.
11 to roar he/she/it and to rebel in/on/with house: home her not to dwell foot her
(She is noisy and ungovernable; in her house her feet never rest;
12 beat in/on/with outside beat in/on/with street/plaza and beside all corner to ambush
At one time she is in the street, at another in the open places, and near every corner doth she lurk, )
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 hold of him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face she said to him,
14 sacrifice peace offering upon me [the] day to complete vow my
“I had bound myself to bring peace-offerings; 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 am I come forth to meet thee, to seek thy presence diligently, and I have found thee.
16 covering to spread bed my colored fine linen Egypt
With tapestry coverings have I decked my bed, with embroidered coverlids of the fine linen of Egypt.
17 to sprinkle bed my myrrh aloe and cinnamon
I have sprinkled 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 indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances.
19 for nothing [the] man: husband in/on/with house: home his to go: went in/on/with way: journey from distant
For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way 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
The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.”
21 to stretch him in/on/with abundance teaching her in/on/with smoothness lip: words her to banish him
She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided 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 followed after her suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as in fetters to his correction, 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 cleaveth through his liver; as a bird hasteneth into the snare, and knoweth not that it is done to take his life.
24 and now son: descendant/people to hear: hear to/for me and to listen to/for word lip my
And now, O children, hearken unto me, and listen to the sayings 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 turn aside to her ways, do not go astray on her paths.
26 for many slain: wounded to fall: deserting and mighty all to kill her
For many deadly wounded hath she caused to fall: yea, very numerous are all those slain by her.
